I had the same patient experience at Stanford in 2003. Around 2015, when I was working as a writer in the medical school communications office, the ID division chief told me in an interview on tick-borne relapsing fever: "We don't treat Lyme patients here because the IDSA tells us that they're all crazy." You'd think that the ID docs would welcome the challenge of treating mixed tick disease infections.
Hi Kris Newby, Thank you for this. I had been unaware of gain-of-function research until I came across your book, and fortuitously for me, that was shortly before the 2020 covid lockdowns. Dangerous research, possible lab escape, skewy incentives, hmmm...
Re: "long covid"— I don't doubt that it does exist, I wouldn't argue about that, but the "long covid" I hear about in my personal circles seems to me to be jab injuries because funny, but the unjabbed I know, all of whom have had covid, they don't have any problems, but the "vaccinated," all of whom also had covid (and more times than the unjabbed, and after having taken the "safe and effective" injectables) are the ones suffering from "long covid." These individuals I know personally believe that the injections they took couldn't possibly be the cause of their "long covid." Why? Because their doctor told them they were "safe and effective." I'm at the point now where when I hear someone complaining about long covid I think, sad, they took all those injections... or, I think, hmmm, maybe they're saying that because they assume I bought the whole story as retailed by CNN et al, and as many of the "vaccine" injured have learned, if you say you have "long covid" you can get help, but if you say you're vaccine injured, you get kicked to the curb.
Thank you for your work. If it weren't for a debilitating case of Babesiosis which I was truly fortunate to have diagnosed within a year, I would have no idea what people with chronic tick borne diseases suffer through. The uncertainty before diagnosis was terrifying. I ended up in a VA psych ward, thinking that I'd had a nervous breakdown. Were it not for a Lyme literate practitioner, I don't think that I'd be here. The honest work of individuals within the Lyme community saves lives and is truly appreciated.
I was unaware of this Substack until reading a link to this article in the online LymeDisease.org.
Thank you Kris Newby for your important work, and for continuing it here on substack. I, too, sure wish you could get the doctors in Stanford Healthcare at Stanford University to see the truth and change their Infectious Disease (ID) Department's stance of Lyme Disease denial. This is from communication with my Stanford neurologist in 2023:
"Dr.... placed the Stanford ID referral per your request, and we were informed that they do not accept our referral because the Stanford ID clinic has a long-standing policy of NOT seeing patients for Lyme Disease or "Tick Bite" if Lyme is the concern."
I had the same patient experience at Stanford in 2003. Around 2015, when I was working as a writer in the medical school communications office, the ID division chief told me in an interview on tick-borne relapsing fever: "We don't treat Lyme patients here because the IDSA tells us that they're all crazy." You'd think that the ID docs would welcome the challenge of treating mixed tick disease infections.
Hi Kris Newby, Thank you for this. I had been unaware of gain-of-function research until I came across your book, and fortuitously for me, that was shortly before the 2020 covid lockdowns. Dangerous research, possible lab escape, skewy incentives, hmmm...
Re: "long covid"— I don't doubt that it does exist, I wouldn't argue about that, but the "long covid" I hear about in my personal circles seems to me to be jab injuries because funny, but the unjabbed I know, all of whom have had covid, they don't have any problems, but the "vaccinated," all of whom also had covid (and more times than the unjabbed, and after having taken the "safe and effective" injectables) are the ones suffering from "long covid." These individuals I know personally believe that the injections they took couldn't possibly be the cause of their "long covid." Why? Because their doctor told them they were "safe and effective." I'm at the point now where when I hear someone complaining about long covid I think, sad, they took all those injections... or, I think, hmmm, maybe they're saying that because they assume I bought the whole story as retailed by CNN et al, and as many of the "vaccine" injured have learned, if you say you have "long covid" you can get help, but if you say you're vaccine injured, you get kicked to the curb.
Thank you for your work. If it weren't for a debilitating case of Babesiosis which I was truly fortunate to have diagnosed within a year, I would have no idea what people with chronic tick borne diseases suffer through. The uncertainty before diagnosis was terrifying. I ended up in a VA psych ward, thinking that I'd had a nervous breakdown. Were it not for a Lyme literate practitioner, I don't think that I'd be here. The honest work of individuals within the Lyme community saves lives and is truly appreciated.
I was unaware of this Substack until reading a link to this article in the online LymeDisease.org.
Thank you Kris Newby for your important work, and for continuing it here on substack. I, too, sure wish you could get the doctors in Stanford Healthcare at Stanford University to see the truth and change their Infectious Disease (ID) Department's stance of Lyme Disease denial. This is from communication with my Stanford neurologist in 2023:
"Dr.... placed the Stanford ID referral per your request, and we were informed that they do not accept our referral because the Stanford ID clinic has a long-standing policy of NOT seeing patients for Lyme Disease or "Tick Bite" if Lyme is the concern."
The 1985 Lake Tahoe Mystery Disease, which you know today as the original Chronic Fatigue Syndrome outbreak had its own Polly Murray.
"Tick Bites and MS" by Bonnie Bennett.
Who contacted Willi Burgdorfer and confirmed presence of Borrelia at the same time and place of the famous CFS outbreak.
Unlike Lyme Connecticut, no doctor at all ever responded.
No doctor or researcher ever looked into the incident "CFS" was coined for.
https://www.amazon.com/Tick-Bites-MS-Bonnie-Bennett-ebook/dp/B00LPVW1VO
Why did the cdc botch the investigation so badly?
McDuff Lives on Rumble covers the nazi sent to Russia made into a double agent that actually made this poison.