Indeed, an article titled "In rare cases, coronavirus vaccines may cause Long Covid-like symptoms" reported: "Now, a small number of other researchers worldwide is beginning to study whether the biology of Long Covid, itself still poorly understood, overlaps with the mysterious mechanisms driving certain postvaccine side effects. " William Murphy, an immunologist at the University of California, Davis. proposed that an autoimmune mechanism triggered by the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein might explain both Long Covid symptoms and some rare vaccine side effects."
Sample user comments
Before delving into details of the Patterson system it is informative to hear from some users of it.
One user of the Patterson system told me this: "I followed their recommendations, found a functional medicine doctor who gave me Rx for Maraviroc [an HIV drug] (very expensive!!!!), Ivermectin and Pravastatin. The improvement was very gradual and I didn't recover completely. I still have anosmia [loss of smell] and still experience various degrees of joints and muscle discomfort."
A March 2022 news investigation titled "Long Covid patients, in search of relief, turn to private company" reported these comments on their use of the treatment protocol:
"Sara Anaya said the medications recommended by IncellDx and prescribed to her by a local doctor worked, though it took a couple of months. She still has very little sense of smell."
"Anne McCloskey said that she remained sick even though IncellDx's tests suggested otherwise. IncellDx's tests showed that she had elevated levels of biomarkers that indicated long Covid. She started with the company's regimen, along with several other treatments. Several months later, a repeat IncellDx blood test suggested she'd largely recovered. But McCloskey still suffered from fevers, extreme fatigue and memory lapses. [Patterson] told me that I was his poster child for recovery. And I'm like, you know, I'm still really sick."
And here are some comments posted on a YouTube interview with Patterson in 2021:
"Sam b: I've been on Patterson's protocol a week. The 4th and 5th days were brutal for my pots! I thought about giving up, but on the 6th day... I started to see a light and now a week in I'm feeling 30% better. My shortness of breath is 95% better, my rashes are gone, my eyes are whiter and my heart rate is starting to go in the 80s when I stand. This has been 17 months of hell after I got covid last year!! I'm hoping within a couple of months I'll feel like my old self."
"Alexis: I'm very sorry to say that while many in the Long Covid community are closely following IncellDx, an equal number of people are very skeptical. I think they have uncovered some interesting ideas but I don't think it's the solution. I have taken Ivermectin and it did nothing at all. For some it helped a few symptoms here and there. Others in my support group have tried statins, most without any real results. Statins did help one person quite a bit but they had more lung/heart involvement it seems. Maraviroc made one person worse. All these meds have been very hard to access. They have been also using prednisone, or at least they were at one point, which is concerning to a lot of us if we don't know whether the immune system needs to be ramped up or calmed down. Obviously, it's different for everyone and maybe some have been helped, but do be wary. I don't know of any people reporting success with this even though they keep saying they've had so much success. I don't think that Bruce Patterson has malicious intentions. It might be one piece of the puzzle. Maybe they will keep looking and find the real answer. I will say Bruce is one of the few looking at viral persistence... any research that explores vascular issues is great I think because there really seems to be something to that."
"TRACEY G: In the article I read about Patterson's Long Covid protocol, he mentioned that he has treated 2,000 people with Long Covid and 98% of them recover" within 6 mos of starting his treatment. If this is the case, seems like a good number of these 2,000 former patients would have posted something about their successful treatments on social media. Has anyone seen any such posts? Or maybe my logic here is wrong? [Note that Patterson has recently indicated he has treated about 14,000 patients.]"
A special blood sample is tested in their company and based on findings of a number of components an index value and treatment regimen are created that requires the use of several medicines, typically for 4 to 6 weeks, that cooperating physicians prescribe. The combined costs of the testing, analysis, prescriptions and medicines likely adds up to thousands of dollars that medical insurance may not cover. Long COVID sufferers who have not received effective treatment from their regular medical providers are often well motivated to spend large sums on what is advertised as an innovative and effective cure for long COVID.
At the core of the Patterson system is the conviction that the condition is caused by inflammation in the vascular system that can be effectively treated with several existing medicines. The immune state is corrupted by pro-inflammatory cytokines or small proteins. The large number of blood markers associated with the immune system and cytokines are found in their proprietary analysis and details exactly the vascular inflammation. In 2020 about a dozen specific blood constituents were identified.
The company says: "Our panel collectively evaluates cytokines known to be involved in chronic COVID-19 and was developed using an algorithm established on a large, long-hauler patient population. Other labs evaluate only a few of the cytokines in our panel." You can see that COVID vaccine sufferers may also have cytokines causing what are often called adverse health impacts.
This is how Patterson explained in July 2021 his initial work:
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