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SHOW.
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THE
THE COVID
THE COVID VACCINE IS NOW AVAILABLE TO ALL IDAHOANS OVER THE AGE
OF 16.
SO IF YOU HAVEN'T
ALREADY...YOU MIGHT
WANT TO SCHEDULE YOUR
SHOT.
THERE SEEMS TO BE LOTS
OF TIMES AVAILABLE.
BUT FOR SOME LONG
HAULERS... OR THOSE
WHO HAVE HAD
SYMPTOMS OF COVID FOR
AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF
TIME.... THERE'S CONCERN
ABOUT ACTUALLY GETTING
THE VACCINE.
WILL THE VACCINE MAKE
SYMPTOMS WORSE?
WILL IT HELP AT ALL?
THOSE ARE JUST SOME OF
THE QUESTIONS WE'VE
SEEN FROM THOSE WHO
ARE STILL STRUGGLING
WITH
SYMPTOMS...SHORTNESS
WITH SYMPTOMS...SHORTNESS OF BREATH, FATIGUE,
OVERALL NOT
THEMSELVES... MONTHS
AFTER A DIAGNOSIS.
BUT THERE MAY BE A
BRIGHT SPOT IN THAT
COVID SHOT.
KATIJA STJEPOVIC SPOKE
WITH TWO LONG
HAULERS ABOUT HOW
THEY ARE FEELING AFTER
GETTING VACCINATED.
GETTING VACCINATED.
:36
:36 WHEN
:36 WHEN IT FIRST STARTED I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A HEAD COLD,
YOU KNOW THE CHANGE
OF THE SEASON SINUS
INFECTION
JESSICA BLAINE, A WIFE
AND MOM OF FOUR
FROM IDAHO FALLS
TESTED POSITIVE FOR THE
VIRUS IN NOVEMBER.
DAYS LATER I REALIZED I
COULD NOT SMELL THE
PEANUT BUTTER MAKING
MY
MY KIDS
MY KIDS LUNCHES :49 AND THAT WAS JUST THE START OF HER LONG HAUL
AHEAD
AHEAD 1:05 I STILL HAVE ISSUES WITH MY SINUSES, I STILL
CANNOT TASTE OR SMELL,
I STILL HAVE ANXIETY AT
TIME, NOT AS SEVERE BUT
I STILL HAVE ANXIETY AND
THEN ABOUT THREE
WEEKS AGO I STARTED
HAVING NEUROPATHY IN
MY HANDS AND IN MY
LEGS 1:28
THAT ...COUPLED WITH
SEVERE FATIGUE AND
SINUS PRESSURE.
THEN LAST WEEK, BLAINE
DECIDED ENOUGH WAS
ENOUGH... AND
SCHEDULED HER VACCINE
APPOINTMENT HOPING IT
WOULD HELP WITH HER
LINGERING SYMPTOMS.
5:29 I KIND OF WENT IN
WITH THE ATTITUDE OF
HERE GOES NOTHING,
WHAT DO I HAVE TO LOSE,
I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING
ELSE, YOU KNOW, I HAD
DONE THE ANTIBIOTICS, I
HAD DONE THE STEROIDS
AND NOTHING WAS
KICKING IT 5:50
ABOUT SIX HOURS AFTER
GETTING HER FIRST DOSE
OF THE MODERNA
VACCINE
VACCINE BLAINE STARTED TO NOTICE IRREGULAR HEART RATE AND
HEADACHE.. AND
THOUGHT THE WORST.
4:31 BUT AFTER ABOUT
THREE
THREE DAYS I WAS LIKE, HEY, MY SINUSES AREN'T HURTING AS BAD, MY
HAND'S AREN'T QUITE AS
TINGLY, THE HEARTBEAT
WENT BACK TO NORMAL
AND SO IT GAVE ME THAT
LITTLE GLIMMER OF HOPE
2:55
2:55 IM
2:55 IM HOPING ROUND TWO THE SECOND SHOT, MAYBE IT WILL FINISH IT
OFF ?
FOR SHELLY THEIL..WHO
HAD BEEN SUFFERING
FROM COVID SYMPTOMS
SINCE OCTOBER, ROUND
TWO DID JUST THAT.
7:03 AND THEN IT WAS
KIND OF WEIRD BECAUSE
THINGS STARTED
CLEARING UP, AND I
NOTICED I WASN'T TIRED
ALL THE TIME, THE BRAIN
FOG 7:27 ALL THE SUDDEN
IT WAS LIKE I WAS BACK
WHERE I WAS BEFORE
COVID EVEN HIT
THEIL, WHO IS ALSO FROM
IDAHO FALLS, WAS
DIAGNOSED WITH COVID
IN NOVEMBER AND AND
THEN AGAIN IN
DECEMBER... SHE LOST 14
POUNDS IN TEN DAYS, IT
BROUGHT HER TO THE
HOSPITAL TWICE AND
SAYS SHE HASNT FELT LIKE
HERSELF UNTIL ABOUT
ONE MONTH AFTER
RECEIVING HER SECOND
DOSE OF THE PFIZER
VACCINE IN FEBRUARY.
7:31 I COULD GO A FULL
HOUR ON THE TREADMILL
HARD, GET OFF AND LIFT
FOR A BIT AND THEN GO
HOME AND BE BOUNCY
ENOUGH TO COOK
DINNER WHICH, THAT
WAS KIND OF CRAZY
8:05 EVERYBODY TELLS ME
I LOOK HEALTHY AGAIN
AND THE ONLY THING I
CAN COME UP WITH IS IT'S
BECAUSE OF THE VACCINE.
TURNS OUT, THE VACCINE
MIGHT BE HELPING TO
CLEAR LINGERING
SYMPTOMS.
A NEW STUDY FROM THE
UK RELEASED ON
MONDAY COMPARED 44
VACCINATED PATIENTS AGAINST 22 UNVACCINATED TO SEE IF
VACCINES WERE SAFE FOR
LONG HAULERS..
ALTHOUGH THE STUDY
HAS NOT BEEN PEER
REVIEWED, IT FOUND
LONG HAULERS WHO
WERE VACCINATED DID
NOT SEE WORSENING
SYMPTOMS... SUGGESTING
THAT THOSE WITH
PROLONGED COVID
SYMPTOMS SHOULD
RECEIVE VACCINATIONS...
SOMETHING THAT BOTH
THEIL AND BLAINE BELIEVE
COULD BE A GLIMMER OF
HOPE.
9:00 EVEN THOUGH I GOT
SO SICK FROM BOTH
DOSES AND ENDED UP IN
THE HOSPITAL AFTER THE
SECOND DOSE I WOULD
DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN
BECAUSE IM FINALLY BACK
TO FEELING NORMAL 9:23
BUTTED
7:34 THERE'S A LOT OF
PEOPLE THAT DON'T
UNDERSTAND, THAT THIS
IS REALLY HAPPENING
AND NO MATTER WHAT
WE DO, WE CAN'T
CHANGE IT AT THE
MOMENT JUST DON'T
GIVE UP,
GIVE UP,
ARE
ARE THERE
ARE THERE ARE ANY OTHER PEER-REVIEWED STUDIES?
STUDIES?
BACK
BACK IN
BACK IN MARCH, DR. FAUCI HAD THIS TO SAY DURING A HEARING OF
THE HOUSE ENERGY AND
COMMERCE COMMITTEE
"THE ISSUE IS THUS FAR
THAT IT'S ANECDOTAL.
MANY PEOPLE GET BETTER
ANYWAY, AND IF YOU GET
VACCINATED AND GET
BETTER, YOU ARE NOT
SURE WHETHER IT'S THE
VACCINE OR THE
VACCINATED AND GET
BETTER, YOU ARE NOT
SURE WHETHER IT'S THE
VACCINE OR THE
SPONTANEOUS RECOVERY.
SO YOU'LL HAVE TO DO A
RANDOMIZED TRIAL IN
ORDER TO DETERMINE
THAT."
THAT."