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However there was a radio report the other day that - annecdotally only so far - some people with long covid were recovering their normal health after getting vacced. It's referred to on one of the long covid threads. It was on a R4 news prog.
Yes this is really interesting. There is some anecdotal evidence on this
www.wired.co.uk/article/covid-19-long-haulers-vaccine
'She has three theories that could explain what is happening in the bodies of long Covid sufferers, and how the vaccine might be alleviating the persisting symptoms the condition causes.
Firstly it may be that there is a viral reservoir somewhere in the body where the virus is replicating but it can’t be located because it is inaccessible by nasal swabs. The vaccines may be stimulating T cells and antibodies that then eliminate that viral reservoir. Secondly, Iwasaki suggests, the persisting symptoms could be attributed to some remnants of the virus hiding somewhere in the body, causing a similar kind of inflammatory response – like a viral ghost. Vaccine-induced immunity may wipe out the viral ghost. Finally, long Covid could be chalked up to an autoimmune response induced by the infection, in which T cells or B cells, or both, are reacting out of place, and the vaccine may be diverting these cells.
It may also be that the vaccine is stimulating the innate immune response, and the short-lasting inflammation that causes could be diverting the immune cells causing long Covid. “I haven’t ruled in or ruled out any of those possibilities yet, because I think the data [are] too early,” she says. “These numbers are still very small. So even though it’s statistically significant, we need to see if this holds up in a larger scale study.” She emphasises that these theories are not mutually exclusive, so diagnosing what people have, and then giving them the appropriate treatment, will be key going forward. “We cannot treat long Covid as one disease, because they may be driven by different things.”