UK: People with ongoing Long Covid symptoms unable to donate blood (as of July 2023)

Andy

Retired committee member
Of course they passed up the opportunity to have PEM/PESE (spelled out in words) as a symptom.... it could have been an opportunity for people to look it up and learn more about what they are experiencing. (Can't have that now, can we?)
 
Of course they passed up the opportunity to have PEM/PESE (spelled out in words) as a symptom.... it could have been an opportunity for people to look it up and learn more about what they are experiencing. (Can't have that now, can we?)

I feel like in the UK they never acknowledged this as part of LC officially? (Unlike in the US, where they did.)
 
My point exactly. If you get a chance and are up to it, listen to the podcast in @Dolphin 's post today. Nancy Klimas is interviewed, but the podcasters chat about how they are with their Long Covid before that. All the tests and referrals they've had. Health inequality is an issue. I could only manage to listen part way through before I crashed, and I wasn't up to going through the other attachments to the post, so I may be pre-judging.

Experiences with Klimas group
 
Higher levels of fragment RNA of the covid-19 virus in Long Covid patients in China.
Still is unknown if these fragments are a causative factor in the development of LC symptoms.

Also unknown whether these reservoirs contain replication-competent virus.

Per Dr. Daniel Griffin TWIV approx 28 min

which references this study out of China in the Lancet. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/...24)00171-3/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email

So, it would seem prudent to me to avoid these unknowns in the blood supply.
 
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