Without clear clinical guidelines in México, people with Long COVID face gaslighting and erasure - The Sick Times
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The only explanation Jacqueline Ventura can think of is Long COVID, also called COVID persistente in México. But though Ventura accrued a hodgepodge of symptoms for two years after getting reinfected with SARS-CoV-2, doctors never diagnosed her with the disease. Every symptom had an alternate explanation. Like many around the world with Long COVID, the weightlifter from the State of Mexico has had to search for answers herself. She learned that many of the symptoms she had since her reinfection lined up with the disease. Yet no one would name it.
  • Long COVID may affect millions of Mexicans, but a lack of information prohibits adequate medical care and innovative research.\
  • Some Mexican doctors are calling on the government to establish a national clinical guideline, which could direct local clinics and medical experts on how best to diagnose and treat the disease.\
  • Similar to other countries, the government places higher-priority on surveilling and addressing other easier-to-diagnose diseases, like dengue.\
  • Despite attempts to approve a clinical guideline, the government agency in charge of approvals has yet to review the proposal.
  • Ofiuco@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    Reminder the past administration dismantled the public vaccination program, instated a half-assed version that allowed them to pocket the money and gave control to the military, during covid they didn’t want to apply vaccines until they were forced to, but only wanted to apply sputnik and cansino, until they were forced again to buy real ones, up to date and not expired ones (and that only lasted a while).

    The current president (during her time as governor) experimented using ivermectin without the patient’s consent, she gave her full support during the expresident’s antivaxx crusade, she (now president) swore to keep the current system going and refuses to buy more covid vaccines, they are still applying outdated and (most likely) expired ones (sputnik and abdala), if you want to get one up to date, you have to pay around 900MXN and it’s hard to find (already got mine but sheesh…).
    The official mandate is to not talk about covid again on the media and the sick ones to be told they have atypical pneumonia or something, but the goverment swears the covid is no more.