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PVS

abbreviation

  1. persistent vegetative state

  2. postviral syndrome

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The study was explicitly preliminary: Its sample size was only 42 people whose claims to have suffered long-term medical problems after vaccination were assumed to be accurate representations of their medical condition, defined by the researchers as “post vaccine syndrome,” or PVS.

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Although critics have labeled REACT19 as an anti-vaccine organization, both say that’s untrue — it aims to support research into PVS.

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Not all the PVS group suffered the same symptoms, raising questions about whether PVS can be accurately defined.

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As it happens, the Yale researchers found that 26 of their PVS cohort, or about 62%, had antibodies in their system indicating that they had previously had COVID, but only 15 told the researchers that they had been infected at least once.

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“But this is giving us some hope that there may be something that we can use for diagnosis and treatment of PVS down the road.... This is far from a final answer on PVS.”

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