"For the longest time in the field of immunology, there was the sort of adage that your immune system needs to be tested every now and again to stay strong. That's an old-fashioned idea.
The more new-fashioned and evidence-based idea is that, although your immune system can take on [a COVID] infection, you want to avoid testing it as much as possible because your body is sustaining damage with each infection that it survives."
@Sidherian My parents went to bars even though it was the primary place COVID was spreading and MN's DOH was telling people not to. They gave me COVID and then mocked me while I recovered. They then refused to believe me that I had long COVID and pretended it was all in my head until a few years ago. They never apologized for crippling me forever for a few bar drinks. They are pro vaccine liberals by the way. They are the upper end of American seriousness on COVID.
From #Covid to #Annexation threats to whatever comes next there's ALWAYS all sorts of things to talk about other than climate but we never stopped & we never will. It's not getting any easier & we could use your support. Give us a hand if you can.
Nach der Wiederauferstehung der Laborthese sollte man meinen, dass vielleicht doch mehr Schutz vor oder von mir aus Kampf gegen #Covid angesagt wäre, weil es demnach ja gar kein so toll "natürliches" Virus wäre. Aber nö.
The cohort included 297,920 SARS-CoV-2-positive individuals and 915,402 SARS-CoV-2-negative controls. Every individual had at least a six-month follow-up after cohort entry
With a range of risk ratios from roughly +25% to +200%! That's up to triple the risk!
children and adolescents [...] infected with SARS-CoV-2 exhibited increased risks for a range of post-acute cardiovascular outcomes, with RR [risk ratio] between 1.26 and 2.92
and things have not gotten better with newer variants:
similar cardiovascular outcomes in children infected with the Delta and Omicron variants
Vaccines DO NOT prevent infection! Vaccines prevent death and severe illness. Also vaccinated people don't turn into a superspreader mutation factory if infected.If any, they shed magnitudes less viruses than unvaccinated folks. Vaccinate!
Brainstem Reduction and Deformation in the 4th Ventricle Cerebellar Peduncles in Long COVID Patients: Insights into Neuroinflammatory Sequelae and “Broken Bridge Syndrome”
@broadwaybabyto By that definition, The Black Plague isn't over either b/c the disease still exists and a few people continue to contract it every year. #Covid
