The first diagnostic designed to identify patients with Long Covid has received CE-IVD marking in Europe, meaning it is ready for its formal launch in countries accepting the designation this month. It works by looking for “patterns of inflammatory marker expression” in the blood, and in particular for the Covid spike protein persisting in white blood cells. Business Wire has the story.
The simple blood test can help to objectively diagnose patients suffering from Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), commonly known as Long Covid. Developed by IncellDx, the test will be available to prescribers and patients in September through one of the world’s largest providers of diagnostic services.
A CE Mark indicates that the incellKINE Long Covid In Vitro Diagnostic fulfills the requirements of relevant European product directives and meets all the requirements of the relevant recognised European harmonised performance and safety standards…
The CE marking is supported by data from a validation study conducted by one of the world’s largest providers of diagnostic services, showing the test provides greater than 90% accuracy across Covid strains. The test was developed based on clinical studies published in the peer reviewed journal Frontiers in Immunology, which showed that IncellDx researchers generated credible, objective disease scores for Long Covid using machine learning and artificial intelligence to measure and analyse sets of inflammatory markers called cytokines and chemokines. The studies also demonstrated that patients with previous COVID-19 infection and lingering symptoms were found to have a distinct immunologic profile characterised by patterns of inflammatory marker expression. In a subsequent publication, IncellDx found SARS CoV-2 S1 spike protein in monocytic reservoirs of Long Covid patients up to 15 months after acute infection. These papers can be found here and here.
Patterson added, “Long Covid presents a significant diagnostic and treatment challenge for patients. Many of the symptoms that are associated with long Covid, including fatigue, brain fog, shortness of breath, insomnia, and a wide range of cardiovascular issues, can easily be mistaken for other conditions like post-Lyme, ME-CFS, Fibromyalgia, or even the common cold. Having an effective – and importantly an objective – tool to diagnose the condition is absolutely essential. An objective test that can detect immune signatures specific to Long Covid is vital for effective diagnosis and to enable patients to seek effective treatment.”
Patients who have or think they may have Long Covid can learn more and register for a test here.
One question is how it will distinguish Long Covid from ‘Long Vaccine’. The same research team behind this test also investigated whether vaccination produced a similar syndrome characterised by lingering spike protein, immune inflammation and the typical symptoms. They found it did: spike protein persistence from vaccination appeared, they said, to be a “major contributor” of symptoms similar to Long Covid post-vaccination. Further, given that the spike protein “alone delivered by vaccination can cause similar pathologic features”, they concluded it may be a “major contributor” of Long Covid symptoms post-infection as well. In other words, Long Covid after infection may be being caused or prolonged by spike protein from the vaccine rather than the infection. It’s not clear if the new diagnostic test will distinguish between these causes (or if that’s possible).
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The question for NHS patients is “Has it been approved by NICE & have the CCGs provided funding for it?”
Too many folk are either told that there is nothing wrong with them because all the tests are ‘normal’, that the bioweapon injection doesn’t cause medical side effects or that things can’t possibly be looked at because NICE/NHS/BMA haven’t approved it….
Related to this is a worldwide list of doctors who treat folk with spike protein injuries, of which a few treat those who have been damaged by the bioweapon injection.
https://longcoviddoctors.org/?fbclid=IwAR1vTZFXTCR7CpD8fGjBK9yGs1X0BXkUnZOO1ufqvB0lqZ8I9MfsBYo5P1o
Blame the vaccine damage on covid.
Nothing to see hear , just move along please…
Job done ,no accountability held..Its just that damm covid thing tut !!
”Blame vaccine damage on covid”
As far as I can see that was the whole reason why they released the Omicron variant, to ensure that everyone had covid at least once if not several times. It was a great obfuscation strategy, now they can blame anything and everything on the covid/cold/flu thingy.
Of course it’s possible. Keep track of how many people with “long COVID” have been jabbed and how many haven’t.
If the proportion of “long COVID” is bigger than the proportion of jabbed it will be an indicator that the cause is the jab.
We all know they won’t do it, but of course it can be done. And I would be willing to bet a lot of money that not many unjabbed if any have long term “covid” symptoms.
On the subject of COVID as a diagnosis, I can’t imagine that there has ever been in the history of medicine a more useless and meaningless diagnosis then “COVID”.
Being diagnosed as having COVID can mean you have literally nothing. It can mean you have a cold. It can mean you have a flu, a bad flu. It can also mean you get a serious lung problem that requires hospitalisation. It can mean you feel nothing and it can mean your body breaks down and dies.
In other words, it is utterly meaningless.
It reminds me of Orwell’s warning that one of the giveaway signs of tyranny is the destruction of the meaning of words.
It’s something that is rampant in our society now. Racism has lost all serious meaning. They are trying to destroy the meaning of words like male and female. Everything is a catastrophe. Everything is a crisis.
By taking away the objective meaning of words the population is left disoriented and confused and those in authority assume the power to define words in whichever way suits their purposes at any given moment.
That is how they’ve held the world captive to corona tyranny for over 2 years. They first used the word COVID to describe a disease that had people hospitalised and on ventilators in March 2020 and then went on to use the same terror word to describe the outcome of a test that had basically nothing in common with the original definition.
Orwell basically gave us a handbook for identifying tyranny. It just doesn’t seem to get much use except perhaps by would be tyrants..
What you’ve said about Covid, stewart, can also be said about ‘Long Covid’.
Bit off-topic to the article but if you know anyone that is just itching to whip out their mask from its resting place ( if they ever did put the damn thing away in the first place ), at the first instruction from the trusted government, then show them this 5min video.
Now we just need to place bets on when we predict the inevitable mandates will re-emerge. I’m predicting it’ll be December ( at the latest ) over here in the NL. Interesting, and telling, that I’ve heard Truss mention lockdowns but I’ve not heard a peep about masks from her…
https://rumble.com/v1eozrz-one-mask-is-good-two-masks-are-better-dr.-ash-and-dr-andys-mask-science-for.html
I’m absolutely not happy about writing this, because I usually try to be polite to everyone who isn’t an outright moron, but: We absolutely need more street level abuse of people still wearing face masks. These are not harmless freaks dressing in weird ways but dangerously irrational morons who believe the mere existence of other people poses a serious health risk to them. Try to insult at least 1 – 2 per week.
Please don’t shout abuse at anyone wearing a mask as they may be wearing it because they have a psychological problem, and shouting abuse at them could harm them, for example by making them not want to go out with or without a mask. Don’t abuse them, have pity on them.
I didn’t refer to shouting. Just insults in passing. Moreover, this may actually help them as their safey behaviour (medical term for meaningless rituals people engage in to neutralize someting the irrationally fear) stops them from realizing that they’re not in danger. But that’s a second order effect. The more important one is to communicate that this kind of passive-aggressive pandemic cosplaying by people who are beyond reason is not socially acceptable.
According to recent Eugyppius text, even Germany’s top Corona clown and inventor of the Sars-CoV2-PCR test Christian Drosten has meanwhile publically admitted that … well … er …. COVID is really not such a big risk to the individual, somewhat like flu, so to say. But since it’s societal effects will certainly cause Total Health System Collapse (Waeeeehh!!!), masks really ought to be worn indoors nevertheless. This nonsense must stop.
[Reportedly, UCB has als ordered students not vaccinated against flu to wear face masks on campus.]
Not sure I can manage actual abuse, but I do my best to convey sorrowful incomprehension, and try not to recognise any masked acquaintances passing by. This latter strategy probably backfires owing to facemasks acting as a sort of disguise/invisibility cloak which protects the wearer from unwanted social interaction.
Expanding a little on the bracketed sentence: One has to compare this to the way lepers were supposed to behave during the middle-ages. They were probably masked (I don’t really know this) and had to carry a bell they had to keep ringing while shouting Filthy! Filthy! to warn everyone to avoid their presence.
And that’s exactly what’s happening here: A university decrees what kinds of useless injections students are supposed to have. And the ones who refuse to get them voluntarily are visually singled-out in a dehumanizing and discomfort-causing way. This closely mirrors plans of the German NPI-minister Karl Lauterbach for autumn: People who are up-to-date on all recommended vaccinations may be allowed to show their faces in public locations and breathe uninhibited. And – judging from past events – this privilege is likely to be withdrawn as soon as a sufficient vaccine uptake has been achieved.
This uncanny similarity is doubtlessly caused by the fact that it is indeed the same plan, devised by the same shady backroom committee of WHO experts and then handed down to their lackeys for implementation.
Well, I don’t think were any in the crowds in west London in the last hour, as the late Queen’s coffin arrived at RAF Northolt and was taken to Buckingham Palace. Ask a bookmaker if you can get odds on anything like that appearing out to next Monday.
Spot the opportunism; just another product you can buy at a pharmacy, perhaps even in a supermarket, like several other ones we can buy for self diagnosis of other things.
Does the new diagnostic test distinguish between Long Covid and M.E./CFS?
It’s claimed that it achieves this with the help of machine learning . In other words, by magic mumbo-jumbo.
The fear that cannot be cured
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And …… ker-ching once again for Big Pharma.
Thousands of hypochondriacs, worried well and lazy ar$es will now be demanding a diagnostic test to determine if they have a case to receive benefits.
ME-CFS and Fibromyalgia remain, after decades, diseases with no proven pathology, abnormal tests or reliable diagnostic criteria (the “approved” diagnostic criteria are purely non- scientific and subjective waffle).
The underlying diagnoses for sufferers is usually psychiatric.
I suspect the majority of “Long Covid” sufferers may have similar underlying issues.
Test or no test, I am still not clear what the difference is between Long Covid and any other post-viral syndrome. We have lived with those for decades (I had it following glandular fever as a medical student in 1968). I am sure it exists, but if indeed it does it is likely to be as prevalent among those who have had SARS-CoV-2 infection as among those who have simply been vaccinated – if the cause of the syndrome is related to an immunological response to the spike protein. And if it is mediated through the immune system I suspect a short course of steroids will stop it.