This article has brought me so much joy. An answer to my prayers and many others infected with Lyme and their loved ones.
Please join me in saying prayers to protect those in the Trump administration taking bold steps to vastly improve the course of so many in pain.
RFK Jr.: ‘The Gaslighting of Lyme Patients Is Over’ by The Defender
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. convened a Dec. 15 roundtable to mark a major shift in federal Lyme disease policy, pledging initiatives to improve diagnosis, treatment and Medicare coverage…
“For many years, this agency had a deliberate policy to refuse to engage with the Lyme community,” Kennedy said. Some officials dismissed patients’ symptoms as psychosomatic and referred them to psychiatric care. “You can’t imagine a worse combination,” he said.
‘Lives have been destroyed by this disease’
Lyme disease is a bacterial infection spread through tick bites. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 476,000 people are diagnosed and treated each year. Federal data suggest 5 to 7 million Americans have been infected over the past decade.
Current antibody-based tests often miss early and late-stage infections…