Turns out the smoking gun wasn’t a gun after all, but a flamethrower, setting the world—as well as dormant cases of a bacterial infection—aflame at an unprecedented rate. The vexing riddle of Long Covid has been solved, as the virus-triggering pandemic fortuitously (miraculously?) outs the forever-hidden epidemic of Lyme disease. Sit Down Before Reading, a memoir of misdiagnosis that unravels medicine’s greatest mysteries, continues with Chapter 46: The Smoking Flamethrower.
Scientists worldwide have been flummoxed by Long Covid, a mysterious, lingering ailment that sometimes appears after patients seemingly had recovered from Covid-19. Even more puzzling: it looks just like Lyme disease. But how could that be? One is a virus, the other is as bacterial infection. Once again, history harbors hints, and for that we venture to playgrounds of the past.
Scientists worldwide have been flummoxed by Long Covid, a mysterious, lingering ailment that sometimes appears after patients seemingly had recovered from Covid-19. Even more puzzling: it looks just like Lyme disease. But how could that be? One is a virus, the other is as bacterial infection. Once again, history harbors hints, and for that we venture to playgrounds of the past.
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