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Is it possible that this new type of vaccine might be of use in reversing the almost stochastic symptoms of autoimmune responses associated with long-Covid?

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If we could identify main culprit self-directed antigens, then certainly would have a shot in people with Long Covid.

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Is there any hope that writing about and researching Lyme Disease will grab an interest in the medical world?

One of the very prevalent issues today is “WHY” is there such a hush hush about admitting that Chronic Lyme disease exists?

Believe me, having been living with it since 1985 I know more about it and what it can do to ruin one’s’ immune system than most medical professionals. Why is that?

Is it in fact because our very own government used ticks to work as bio-terrorism.?

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Is it possible that the antigens are pieces of the Covid virus that remain in our systems and excite the immune system. Could this explain why the symptoms of this condition appear randomly and autonomously and why this condition lasts for months in some patients and years in others?

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Yes, persistence is one of the key underpinning mechanisms, wither of the virus or its components in reservoirs body tissue

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That's a very interesting idea. What do you think about vitamin D? In 2009-2010 while working as a hospitalist, I discovered medical reports from the 1930s that showed it to be effective in controlling psoriasis, RA, and asthma when I was trying to figure out how to treat the deficiency I discovered in my hospitalized patients. In the 1940s it was being used to cure chronic TB infections, using doses of 100,000 to 150,000 IU/d for 2 to 3 months, without complications. I can share the references with you if like. I cite them in several vitamin D manuscripts I have written since 2016. There is a lot of research that shows that vitamin D, sunshine, and UVB phototherapy restore the functional status of regulatory T lymphocytes, and that Tregs are dysfunctional in a state of vitamin D deficiency.

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