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@chuckstran Thank you. Very well thought out and presented. After five years of COVID and just as many of LC, the scientists and experts are still not certain what LC is. The symptoms, yes. But not the etiology. The prevailing theory is that after infection, some patients retain "reservoirs" of the virus that continue to manifest symptoms months, years, or ??? longer. But that is only one theory, as yet unproven. So I suppose it should be no surprise that the health care industry does not have a consensus on how to treat LC. I live in CA and have Kaiser Permanente Insurance. KP treats LC symptomatically. So, in my case, I have gone to different physicians for mood disorder, hearing loss, vertigo, sleep disorder, fatigue, and muscle and joint pain. That would be fine except for one overreaching problem. No one is coordinating. No one oversees all those involved. They all have access to the notes of the others, but there seems to be no "connecting the dots." I feel as if I am being treated as six different patients. Given that there are already millions of Americans with LC, you would think that there would be an effort for all the healthcare providers to unite and find a consensus on treatment. Frankly, what has helped me the most I have discovered through my own research. One useful resource comes from the Yale Medical School. They are conducting various studies on COVID and LC and learning much along the way. A Japanese American, Dr. Iwasaki, heads the studies, but there are many highly qualified people working on different aspects of them. They are one of the few credible sources that have acknowledged that the mRNA vaccines/boosters can result, in a subset of patients, in a setback of symptoms of LC. They are not anti-vaxers, but they do acknowledge the issue and substantiate it with data.

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