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Major paper! The team found that fibrinogen (which converts to fibrin):
-binds to spike
-forms clots + neuro issues
-acute stage fibrinogen = predictive biomarker of #LongCovid cog dysfunction!
-suppresses natural killer (NK) cells (which clear virus!)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07873-4 1/
Fibrin drives thromboinflammation and neuropathology in COVID-19 - Nature
Fibrin drives inflammation and neuropathology in SARS-CoV-2 infection, and fibrin-targeting immunotherapy may represent a therapeutic intervention for patients with long COVID.Nature
"Oof, it's so painful!"
"Do you mean pain from Long Covid symptoms? Or painful grief from losing family and friends to Covid?"
"No, I mean attacks from folks who say I'm contributing to disability and death by doing nothing to stop the spread of Covid!"
I like this latest comic from @jensorensen (I like her work so much I support her on Patreon)
https://www.patreon.com/jensorensen/posts
We need to talk about #Covid & #LongCovid . As this comic points out, many people got the wrong message from the pandemic & this wasn't an accident. There was an organized effort to spread disinformation. It was profitable for individuals & social media companies.
Health #disinformation on #socialmedia needs to be fixed, because it's killing people.
> Both SARS-CoV-2 and non-COVID-19 acute respiratory infections are associated with a wide range of symptoms more than 4 weeks after the acute infection<
In other words, long Covid is a thing, but is not completely unique to Covid.
"Long-term symptom profiles after COVID-19 vs other acute respiratory infections: an analysis of data from the COVIDENCE UK study"
#COVID19 #longCOVID #influenza #URTI #infectiousdiseases #IDMastodon
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(23)00428-5/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_aip_email#%20
After just 3 songs, Robbie Williams leans on his knees for support. The band has just started the 4th song, but he tells them to stop.
"I'm fucked," he says out of breath. With a boyish look at the audience: "It's #LongCovid. Not my age, you bastards!"
Top story on WaPo now is about #LongCovid patients feeling left behind by society.
Gift link for anyone to read:
For covid long-haulers, the pandemic is far from over
The end of the coronavirus public health emergency has left long-covid patients fearful they will be forgotten.Frances Stead Sellers (The Washington Post)
"The people who still live with #COVID are being ignored so that everyone else can live with ignoring it."
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/04/long-covid-symptoms-invisible-disability-chronic-illness/673773/