When it comes to MS and covid the main concern is that a lot of people with MS are on immunosuppressants to keep their MS in check while at the same time this opens them up to catching covid. There are other medical conditions that are also treated with these same types of drugs and these people do not have the same immune system response to covid that a normal person would have. Infections can kill and people that are fighting mask mandates and vaccinations are taking an active voice in that the lives of others do not matter to them. They only care about themselves. These people have a right to life as well and everything needs to be done to protect life. I’m hoping that by putting this information into one place people can use it for their own medical treatments/research and so that others can know how these groups are impacted. I will continue to add to this list as I come by more information.
Here is some information on MS (Multiple Sclerosis) and Covid.
Articles:
Below are articles I found that should have gone through the peer review process before being published. I would give these more backing then the general websites that you can find on the same topics. These articles you should be able to easily access through the links without having to have access to a college library.
•”COVID-19
and MS disease-modifying therapies”. Neurology
(Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation) By Joseph R. Berger, Rachel
Brandstadter, and Amit Bar-Or. (May 15th 2020). https://nn.neurology.org/content/7/4/e761.abstract
(https://nn.neurology.org/content/nnn/7/4/e761.full.pdf)
-One of the key results of this shows that people with MS do not have a higher chance of catching covid, but they do have a higher death rate due to the body’s over reaction to the infection.
•”COVID-19
in teriflunomide-treated patients with multiple sclerosis.” By Amir Hadi
Maghzi, Maria K. Houtchens, Paolo Preziosa…..(June 3rd 2020) Maghzi2020_Article_COVID-19InTeriflunomide-treate.pdf
-This one has some good pictures to help explain what they are talking
about.
• “Multiple sclerosis and COVIS-19.” By Jan Mares and Hans-Peter Hartung. (July 17th 2020) Bio_002599_fin-0001 (1).pdf
•”Multiple
sclerosis and COVID-19: How many are at risk?” . European Journal of Neurology: The Official Journal of the European
Academy of Neurology. By Gabriel Bsteh, Christina Bitschnau, Harald Hegen,
Franziska Di Pauli,…..(September 25th 2020). https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ene.14555
(https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ene.14555)
-This
one looks at overlapping health factors and age in relation to the MS covid
issue.
Websites:
https://www.cedars-sinai.org/blog/ms-and-covid-19.html
-So this website goes against the peer reviewed information I found. In those studies they found higher death rates and this site tries to make it sound that people with MS fit into the same numbers as other groups. I included this for the reason of showing how websites can give bad information and what you read on this site should not be trusted.
-This one I’m on the fence with since it says that people with ambulatory disability had higher risks, but other people with MS were on average with everyone else. This is still just a website and should not be trusted as much as more official research.
-This one I found interesting because it also looks at the impact of mental health around the subject of covid and MS.
https://www.webmd.com/multiple-sclerosis/covid-19-multiple-sclerosis-ms
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0255316
-This one I put under websites instead of Journals because it came from a newer source that has not yet established its credibility. This one says that instead of worrying about how immunosuppressants will impact your chances of covid, that you should still keep up with your MS treatments. It is on the newer side of things, but I’m hesitant in trusting it due to where it was published.
-I like getting an international perspective on situations since I feel that US politics many times warps all the parts of our lives. You can see this even today with how politicized the mask issue has gotten. This site from the UK acknowledges that your chances of infection from covid and complications are higher.
One
of the interesting things I found though is that most of the studies and sites
focused on people with MS that are on some type of immunosuppressants and that
there was little to no info on people with MS that are not taking any form of
them. I would have also liked to have found info on people with CIS in relation
to COVID since their body has already shown an ability to over react.
12/9/21: Update: "FDA clears AstraZeneca's Covid antibody treatment for immunocompromised" - https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-clears-astrazenecas-covid-antibody-treatment-immunocompromised-rcna8130?fbclid=IwAR2tLG0bPdPRcMr8T4pa1PeRP01X1RpZr6HgADLUElCngAXXHPk2_SqWF4M
1/28/22: "Woman With MS Dies of COVID After Doctors Told Her She Couldn't Get Vaxxed, Family Says" - https://www.thedailybeast.com/nerissa-regnier-woman-with-ms-dies-of-covid-19-after-doctors-told-her-she-couldnt-get-vaxxed-family-says?fbclid=IwAR2S44WwYCHoTJZXngFUjVVsMVT-v1hSmQsDUaxjD6t6gjkNaBaf510mVNk
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