Long Haul COVID & Persistent Lyme; is There a Silver Lining?
About This Event:
National experts and patients come together to explore how these two diseases may be confused and address the ongoing health repercussions they each represent – particularly as outdoor activities increase and Lyme disease continues to be widely misdiagnosed. Both organizations are well positioned to host this event.
As early responders to the pandemic, Project Lyme provided professionally managed patient support to the Lyme community through the Lyme & COVID Facebook group. In addition, during its educational outreach to the community, Dr. Richard Horowitz correctly predicted the overlap between these diseases over a year ago.
For its part, Bay Area Lyme Foundation, a renowned as a leading sponsor of Lyme disease research in the U.S., is also a supporter of the Resilience Project, which seeks to identify people who, despite high risk of exposure to COVID-19, Lyme disease or other illnesses, do not exhibit any symptoms.
Featuring:
Dr. Richard Horowitz — a board certified internist, medical director of the Hudson Valley Healing Arts Center, scientific advisor to Bay Area Lyme Foundation and author of How Can I Get Better?
Dr. Christine Green — a practicing physician who has been treating Lyme disease since 1989 and has seen more than 100 patients with COVID-19 including those who have both Lyme and COVID-19. Dr. Green also serves on the boards of the International Lyme and Associated Disease Society (ILADS), LymeDisease.org and Bay Area Lyme Foundation.
Dr. Steven Phillips — Yale-educated expert on zoonotic infections, co-author of the newly-released and highly-acclaimed book Chronic, and scientific advisor to Bay Area Lyme Foundation.
David Roth — Lyme disease and COVID-19 patient. Executive Committee Chair, Project Lyme.
Laure Woods — Lyme disease and COVID-19 patient. Founder and Co-Chair, Bay Area Lyme Foundation.
Three Reasons Why COVID-19 Can Cause Silent Hypoxia
Summary by Cindy OlmsteadApril 25, 2021
Many people with severe COVID-19 and dangerously low oxygen levels do not have difficulty breathing or shortness of breath, thus the condition was dubbed “silent” hypoxia. To learn what causes silent hypoxia — abnormally low — researchers tested three different scenarios.
As reported by Science Daily, the researchers first looked at how COVID-19 impacts the lungs’ ability to regulate where blood is directed, causing the lungs of some patients to lose the ability to restrict blood flow to already damaged tissue. For blood oxygen levels to drop to the levels observed in COVID-19 patients, blood flow needs to be much higher than normal in areas of the lungs that can no longer gather oxygen — which contributes to low oxygen levels throughout the entire body, researchers said.
Secondly, they looked at how blood clotting impacts blood flow in different areas of the lung. They noted that when the lining of blood vessels get inflamed from COVID-19 infection, tiny blood clots too small to be seen on medical scans may form inside the lungs. Researchers found that the tiny blood clots could incite silent hypoxia, but determined that condition alone is not likely to cause oxygen levels to drop as low as the levels seen in documented COVID-19 cases.
Last, the team wanted to find out if COVID-19 interferes with the normal ratio of air-to-blood flow that the lungs need to function normally. The study suggests that for this to be a cause of silent hypoxia, the mismatch must be happening in parts of the lung that don’t appear injured or abnormal on lung scans.
(This safe, cheap treatment can be used any time symptoms start. You simply need a nebulizer, distilled water, 12% food grade hydrogen peroxide, himalayan sea salt, and a glass storage bottle that seals properly. Store in the refrigerator until needed. The final solution is a 3% hydrogen peroxide treatment. Details in link on how to use.)
According to Dr. Lee Merritt, patients should be taking the following supplements: vitamins D,C, NAC, zinc, quercetin, and selenium.
I personally had this spike protein illness. It wasn’t fun. I was flat on my back for 12 days with an unstoppable fever, aches, and eventually nausea that prohibited me from eating. It all began in my chest (pressure and tickling dry cough). I was weakening by the day. What turned me around were two treatments of blood ozone, 25gms of IV C, and IVERMECTIN.
You must take Ivermectin on a full stomach to get it into the cells where the spike protein is (unlike when you take it as a dewormer). I’m happy to report that both my husband and I beat this with the appropriate treatment. The COVID injection, BTW, turns your body into a spike protein manufacturing machine. They don’t know if this spike protein manufacturing ever stops. Food for thought. Also, more and more reports are coming out that those who received the injection(s) are making those around them ill with the spike protein illness. Many doctors are calling for those who received the injections to be quarantined and are prohibiting them from their office due to fears of the unknown on pregnancy and the developing fetus.
Aims of the study: Patient comprehension is a critical part of meeting medical ethics standards of informed consent in study designs. The aim of the study was to determine if sufficient literature exists to require clinicians to disclose the specific risk that COVID-19 vaccines could worsen disease upon exposure to challenge or circulating virus.
Methods used to conduct the study: Published literature was reviewed to identify preclinical and clinical evidence that COVID-19 vaccines could worsen disease upon exposure to challenge or circulating virus. Clinical trial protocols for COVID-19 vaccines were reviewed to determine if risks were properly disclosed.
Results of the study: COVID-19 vaccines designed to elicit neutralising antibodies may sensitise vaccine recipients to more severe disease than if they were not vaccinated. Vaccines for SARS, MERS and RSV have never been approved, and the data generated in the development and testing of these vaccines suggest a serious mechanistic concern: that vaccines designed empirically using the traditional approach (consisting of the unmodified or minimally modified coronavirus viral spike to elicit neutralising antibodies), be they composed of protein, viral vector, DNA or RNA and irrespective of delivery method, may worsen COVID-19 disease via antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE). This risk is sufficiently obscured in clinical trial protocols and consent forms for ongoing COVID-19 vaccine trials that adequate patient comprehension of this risk is unlikely to occur, obviating truly informed consent by subjects in these trials.
Conclusions drawn from the study and clinical implications: The specific and significant COVID-19 risk of ADE should have been and should be prominently and independently disclosed to research subjects currently in vaccine trials, as well as those being recruited for the trials and future patients after vaccine approval, in order to meet the medical ethics standard of patient comprehension for informed consent.
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**Comment**
Another warning shot over the bow that public health ‘authorities’ and the mainstream media are not alerting the public, and particularly vaccine trial participants of the very real issue of ADE.
According to our public health ‘authorities’ and bought out mainstream media, the mantra “vaccines are safe and effective” is just repeated over and over until it is believed, despite all the evidence to the contrary. People questioning this narrative are simply bullied through name-calling and below the belt hits. They are further then used to set an example to others to effectively keep the opposition at bay. Rule by fear.
“theme began to stand out as a consistent concern. Safe and effective treatments for COVID-19 are inexplicably being withheld. As you read the full position paper, you will encounter many similar examples of what appears to be willful misconduct.”
Further, even authors in a medical journal call for Ivermectin to be ‘globally and systemically deployed,” as well as 120 doctors ask JAMA to retract a flawed study downplaying the efficacy of ivermectin.
Those who dare to treat tick-borne illness appropriately have faced this persecution for 40 years – and it continues to this day.
Medical journal calls for Ivermectin to be ‘globally & systematically deployed’
The study’s authors found large, statistically significant reductions in mortality and recovery time in addition to ‘significantly reduced risks of contracting COVID-19 with the regular use of ivermectin.’
Thu May 6, 2021
By Doug Mainwaring
May 6, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) –– The American Journal of Therapeutics has published a research paper calling for ivermectin — a drug which has been maligned and suppressed as a coronavirus treatment — to be “globally & systematically deployed” as a treatment for COVID-19.
This comes as welcome news as local jurisdictions and governments worldwide seek to establish policies which would enforce mandatory vaccinations in order for citizens to participate fully in society. Many have wondered if perhaps governments and Big Pharma have an agenda to push the vaccine while eliminating cheaper, more effective ways of treating the coronavirus.
They also cite many examples of “ivermectin distribution campaigns leading to rapid population-wide decreases in morbidity and mortality,” prompting them to conclude that as an oral agent, ivermectin is “effective in all phases of COVID-19.” (See link for article)
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**Comment**
The study authors are far from alone. More doctors and economists statetens of thousands of lives could have been saved if research on COVID treatments hadn’t been suppressed.
The article does a great job of giving the vast evidence for Ivermectin including the fact it’s on the WHO’s “list of essential medicines.”
It also mentions YouTube’s censorship of a Senate hearing because it defied the accepted narrative. In that hearing, Dr. Pierre Kory passionately explained how he and an international group of doctors (Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance or FLCCC) discovered and successfully use Ivermectin in every phase of COVID-19 illness. They found it led to up to a 83% lower than average death rate in hospitals.
The group found Ivermectin to not only be anti-parasitic (it’s commonly used for worms), but anti-viral, and anti-inflammatory – all issues related to COVID-19.
And importantly, there is now data from over 20 well designed clinical studies – 10 of which are randomized, controlled trials detailing significant benefits in:
reducing transmission rates
shortening recovery times
decreasing hospitalizations
reducing deaths
Our government has been complicit in this information war by funding fraudulent research on HCQ, and suppressing or even banning effective treatments for COVID-19.
Recently 120 doctors have asked JAMA to retract a misleading study on Ivermectin. The study authors all had conflicts of interest – primarily with large pharmaceutical companies manufacturing vaccines and competing drugs.
Under the disingenuously named “COVID-19 Consumer Protection Act” — part of the 2021 Consolidated Appropriations Act signed into law by then-President Trump in late December — the U.S. Department of Justice is actively pursuing enforcement actions against healthcare providers who encourage use of supplements such as zinc and vitamin D to treat or prevent COVID.
While our conflict riddled public health ‘authorities’ malign any test or drug that competes with their own lucrative products, there is a growing by the day group of health professionals speaking out at greatpersonal cost – yet these experts, are also being maligned,censored and charged as criminals at an unprecedented rate.
If you plan to be out in the woods or live next to woods, don’t be too quick to trade long pants and long sleeves for shorts and a tee shirt as the weather warms. You need to protect yourself from the ticks that are starting to emerge. Tick bites are possible year-round, but ticks are most active April through September.
Many types of ticks never feed on people. In Wisconsin, the two most common ticks that do are the wood tick, which is not a health concern here, and the black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis), commonly known as the deer tick, which can transmit several serious diseases including Lyme disease and, more recently, anaplasmosis, which can start with symptoms like fever and nausea and in some cases, progress to organ failure.
Deer tick (left) and Wood tick (right). Photo courtesy of prevention.com
Wisconsin is Tick Heaven
The Upper Midwest and the northeastern states are hardest hit by Lyme disease, and the numbers in Wisconsin are rising. According to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, Wisconsin had 3,105 estimated cases in 2018.
Once considered to be a north woods hazard, deer ticks are now found in every county of the state. Deer are an important blood source for adult ticks, and in 2018 overwinter deer densities in the state varied from three to over 60 per square mile. The abundant woodlands interspersed with agriculture throughout much of central and southwestern Wisconsin creates high quality deer habitat.
“There’s been a change in the past 25 years,” says Dr. Susan Paskewitz, chair of the UW-Madison Department of Entomology. Ticks thrive in moist, shady forested environments, and love our increasingly mild winters. “We find them in pine forests, mixed forests and deciduous forests.”
Paskewitz has sampled along the woody edges and out into the yard in neighborhoods in Eau Claire and near Delton.
“Of 90 houses tested, by the end of June, 80 percent of them had at least one deer tick in the area we were sampling. Most were within three to six feet of the woods,” Paskewitz continued, “but a few were found in bright, open, mowed lawn. I don’t think they live long there, but they were making their way out there, so if you are walking out to get your mail without your shoes on, you might pick up that particular tick.” (See link for article)
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**Comment**
They say a picture‘s worth a thousand words. The picture of this tick in the gum line in the mouth of a dog shows how durable and tenacious ticks are.
A few points for consideration:
Migrating birds, rodents, deer, lizards, and human movement are transporting ticks everywhere. For far too long doctors have been looking at maps to diagnose people. Trust me, ticks are virtually everywhere and adapt to weather conditions quite easily.
If I’ve written this once, I’ve written it 1,000 times – many people never see the tick or the rash and research shows the rash is highly variable – certainly not a sure thing.
Regarding the section on if you find a tick bite: while it’s true that removing the tick as soon as possible is step #1, step #2 is getting prompt treatment as the “wait and see” approach has doomed patients to decades of suffering. Demand immediate prophylactic treatment for each and every tick bite. Trust me – whatever mild side effects and inconvenience a month or two’s worth of doxycycline can cause is nothing compared to the pain and suffering of a chronic, relapsing infection.
Testing for all tick-borne illnesses is abysmal. Lyme is just the tip of the spear. Ticks are literal garbage cans full of numerous pathogens they can transmit in just one bite. The only infections listed in this article were Lyme disease, Anaplasmosis, and Babesia, when there are 19 and counting infections ticks can transmit. Research has shown being infected with more than one pathogen causes more severe illness for a longer duration. It is imperative that treatment includes medications that focus on each pathogen. For the mounting list of tick-borne pathogens:
Babesiosis
Bartonellosis
Borrelia miyamotoi
Bourbon Virus
Colorado Tick Fever
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic Fever
Ehrlichiosis/Anaplasmosis
Heartland Virus
Meat Allergy/Alpha Gal
Pacific Coast Tick Fever: Richettsia philipii
Powassan Encephalitis
Q Fever
Rickettsia parkeri Richettsiosis
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF)
SFTS: Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome
STARI: Southern Tick-Associated Rash Illness
Tickborne meningoencephalitis
Tick Paralysis
Tularemia
While the wood tick and deer tick are the most common ticks in Wisconsin, they are hardly the only ticks we must be concerned about.Go here for more on the various types of ticks and the diseases they carry. The Lone Star tick has been found in Wisconsin and one allergist in MN states he diagnoses approximately 1 patient per month with Alpha-gal allergy – some patients hailing from WI. Wisconsin is a hot-spot for Powassan virus, and we recently had our first death due to Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. It would be a huge mistake to believe you only have to worry about Lyme, Anaplasmosis, and Babesia in Wisconsin. Nearly every patient I work with also has Bartonella – a tenacious pathogen that isn’t even on most doctors’ radars, and Mycoplasma is very common.
Most articles such as these don’t tell you what to do once you’ve become infected. Optimally, you would be prepared before this ever happened by finding the Lyme literate doctors (LLMD) in your state. The best way to do this is to contact your local Lyme support group. There is also a tab on the right side of this website called, “Find a Lyme Support Group.” There is also another tab slightly down from that in which you can contact ILADS directly for doctors in your area. Read this if you don’t know what a LLMD is. LLMDs are specially trained in tick-borne illness and know how to diagnose patients clinically. This is crucial because current 2-tiered CDC testing misses anywhere from 70-85% of cases or more. You truly can not trust testing. They also know how to treat this complex illness that typically is far more than just Lyme.
Madison Area Lyme Support Group 
