Studies

  • NCT04832932
  • NCT03451994
  • NCT03582826
  • NCT02692495
  • NCT02683876

    COVID-19

  • Reactivated Virus: 7/2/2021
  • Autoimmunity: 5/16/2021
  • Anaphylaxis: 3/20/2021
  • Genes and Proteins: 4/13/2020
  • Sniffing COVID: 6/20/2020
  • Personalized vaccines: 5/21/2020

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    • August 12

        August 12, 2021   
    When we thought COVID-19 was over, as more individuals were vaccinated against the deadly virus, the fourth wave of the pandemic struck, fueling a rise in breakthrough infections. 

    My father lost his battle with SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617.2 (Delta) on August 12 2021. He was such a loving and caring person, talented engineer, very well-read, a story teller, a poet, a dreamer, and an eternal optimist. 

    I will be writing more about him later. There is a lot to share. I might not be able to retrieve the medical history of his days in the hospital - despite multiple inquiries to medical facilities and ministry of health.  But I was there, talking to him even in the ICU, and I have all the records from his COVID-19 vaccination, along with other histories from the COVID-back-to-normal study and information about other COVID victims from genealogy and other sources. Let the truth be told. 


    REFERENCES


    Berkessel J, Ebert T, Gebauer J, Jonsson T, Oishi S. Pandemics Initially Spread Among People of High (not Low) Social Status: Evidence from COVID-19 and the Spanish Flu. PsyArXiv, 12 Jan. 2021.  [example of using genealogy sites for medical research]


    Gabashvili IS. Community-Based Phenotypic Study of Safety, Tolerability, Reactogenicity and Immunogenicity of Emergency-Use-Authorized Vaccines Against COVID-19 and Viral Shedding Potential of Post-Vaccination Infections: Protocol for an Ambispective study. medRxiv. 2021 Jun 1. medRxiv 2021.06.28.21256779; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.28.21256779






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    July 2, 2021: Viruses and Vaccines. Many disorders are thought to be post-infectious syndromes. Perhaps SARS-CoV-2 (and, in rare cases, COVID-19 vaccines) could reactivate the old viruses that caused those syndromes to begin with?

    June 26, 2021: COVID-19 and vaccine reactogenicity Adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines are influenced by a multitude of factors, many of which can be anticipated and alleviated. A certain level of inflammation is needed to trigger an effective adaptive immune response, but both environment and genetic makeup determine who is more likely to experience particular symptoms after infection and from the vaccine.


    March 20, 2021: Anaphylaxis to COVID-19 vaccines : What do we know about anaphylactic reactions to Astrazeneca, Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson & other COVID-19 vaccines?
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    January 20, 2021: Irritable Bowel and COVID-19 : Abdominal pain is less widely known as a symptom of COVID-19, yet it is  - along with shortness of breath and confusion - a potential sign of the most severe form of COVID-19. In children, having gastrointestinal symptoms was more frequently associated with severe and critical phenotype.
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