Lecture abstract:

My talk will focus on the care of patients with long COVID and vaccine injury and discuss clinically relevant biomarkers to guide or monitor the effects of therapies. I will talk about the potential correlation between spike antibody levels, severity of symptoms, and changes in symptoms in response to various treatments. Based on this, I will explore implications for practice, including support for the effects of autophagy, validation of exposure to a shedding event as a possible cause of new or increased symptoms, and/or an indication to
evaluate and treat close contacts of recently vaccinated patients. Finally, I will discuss therapeutics that can reduce spike levels and/or reduce symptoms.

Scott Marsland has been an RN since 1997, and an FNP-C since 2014. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with an MS in Nursing from SUNY Upstate Medical University. He has been a writer, speaker, organizer, and leader for community health for more than 20 years.

Scott played an instrumental role in the formation of the Ithaca Free Clinic in 2005. The IFC was the first free integrated medicine clinic in the United States and today serves more than 4,000 people annually.

Scott worked at the bedside in a Level 1 trauma center from 2016-2021, attending to patients through the first year and a half of the pandemic. In January 2022, Scott joined Dr. Pierre Kory during the startup of a telemedicine practice, and they became partners in June 2022. He currently manages the care of more than 200 long COVID and vaccine-injured patients.