/oss/taxonomy/term/5548/all en /oss/article/covid-19-medical/potential-treatment-prevent-long-covid <hr /> <p><em>This article was originally posted in the</em> <a href="https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/christopher-labos-a-potential-treatment-to-prevent-long-covid"><em>Montreal Gazette.</em></a></p> <hr /> <p>The cruelty of COVID is that many people recover only to be left with long-term symptoms. What we have taken to calling long COVID seems to affect about 10 per cent of people post infection. Symptoms tend to resolve slowly over months, if not years, but apart from suggesting patience there was not much medicine could offer. Until now.</p> Fri, 16 Jun 2023 10:00:00 +0000 Christopher Labos MD, MSc 9543 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19/does-covid-19-mess-immune-system <p>Have you heard that, apparently, COVID-19 is “airborne AIDS?”</p> <p>“I think that that epithet is horrifying and beyond offensive,” Edward Nirenberg tells me. He is a science communicator with a degree in biochemistry who focuses his communication efforts on vaccines and COVID-19. “It categorically isn’t. It’s not what the data show.”</p> Fri, 10 Feb 2023 13:59:23 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 9386 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19-medical/how-reduce-risk-getting-long-covid <hr /> <p><em>This article was originally posted in the <a href="https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/christopher-labos-how-to-reduce-risk-of-getting-long-covid">Montreal Gazette.</a></em></p> Thu, 14 Jul 2022 17:30:39 +0000 Christopher Labos MD, MSc 9183 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19-critical-thinking/problems-adaptogens <p>Mark my words: long COVID will be a magnet for quacks.</p> Thu, 09 Jun 2022 15:59:24 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc 9131 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19/debilitating-puzzle-box-long-covid <p>Imagine sitting in front of 40,000 tiny pieces that you have to assemble into a jigsaw puzzle. Except that some of these pieces may belong to a different puzzle. There is no box to tell you what the final image looks like. And in front of you is a massive hourglass, its sand slowly and inevitably flowing down, and as time goes by, more and more people suffer. You must solve the puzzle while minimizing suffering.</p> Fri, 04 Feb 2022 20:36:09 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 9015 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19/assessing-risks-vaccine-side-effects <hr /> <p>This article was first published in <a href="https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/columnists/christopher-labos-assessing-the-risks-of-vaccine-side-effects">the Montreal Gazette</a></p> Fri, 15 Oct 2021 20:39:56 +0000 Christopher Labos MD, MSc 8900 at /oss /oss/article/covid-19-critical-thinking-health/exaggerated-villainy-epstein-barr-virus <p>What causes a disease? We saw this important medical question get raised during the pandemic. Some people refused to accept that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus was causing COVID-19 because<a href="/oss/article/covid-19-pseudoscience/psychiatrist-who-calmly-denies-reality"> </a><a href="/oss/article/covid-19-pseudoscience/psychiatrist-who-calmly-denies-reality">it failed to meet antiquated criteria for proving a microorganism causes an infectious disease</a>.</p> Fri, 16 Jul 2021 21:50:32 +0000 Jonathan Jarry M.Sc. 8786 at /oss