This very recent paper -- https://bityl.co/7TjW -- is both scary and possibly a huge breakthrough.
While it's not clear if SARS-COV-2 is able to break the brain barrier directly (they did not find any remnants in the brains they reviewed, but others reportedly have), it turns out the body's immune response triggers inflammation inside the brain, and there are other signs that are consistent with observations from the brains of people with cognitive diseases like ALZ.
The implication here is that Long-COVID might be a much more serious long-term health problem than anyone thought.
Since 2016 or so, studies have shown that the immune system appears to be part of the mechanism that eventually results in ALZ. That Long-COVID and ALZ are both the results of an immune system response, seems rather ominous for the long-term outcomes of the folks who have Long-COVID neurological symptoms.
Risk of death and Long-COVID -- what other motivation do you need?
HokieAnnie
Very Scary. A contractor who works on my team got COVID shortly after he began working on our service contract in January. He was out for a bit more than a week but now reports brain fog and honestly his work product hasn't been that good. I feel really sorry but for him because the contract ends at the end of month. My suspicion is that the new contractor hasn't offered him a slot on the new contract.
How do you prove you need to be on disability post COVID?
Citizen Lehew
This has been one of the great mysteries of this pandemic.
If it was announced that a new super-contagious respiratory virus was going around that simply caused about 25% of even asymptomatic infections to develop possibly long-term disabling symptoms such as severe brain fog, inability to climb stairs without wheezing, endless fevers, etc, people would be freaking out. But if you take away hospitalizations and deaths entirely, it's looking like this might actually be what Covid is.
Yet the media and the medical establishment barely mention long-haul Covid at all... the conversation always revolves around hospitalizations and deaths, and once they're reduced it means that pandemic is over and we can go back to normal.
I dunno, it definitely makes me feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone. What am I missing? If nothing else, you'd think if they want to get a 25 year old to take the vaccine they'd be banging the Long Covid gong as loudly as they can, since possible lifelong disability really is the risk that they're facing, not death.
James Bowater
Jim in UK, both jabs a couple of months ago . 🙂
painedumonde
Vous avez raison et je suis d'accord !
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
Even conservatives, who have every right to be hesitant?
cld
Do you have a right to threaten others?
illilillili
Let me fix that for you: Even conservatives, who have every right to be stupid.
HokieAnnie
Heh you're preaching to the choir Kevin even if you are an atheist hahaha.
I got mine as soon as I was eligible back in April/May.
iamr4man
I wonder if anyone who reads Kevin with any regularity hasn’t already been vaccinated. Some of the trolls are idiots, but I doubt they are that stupid.
davidfarbman9065
You should consider doing one of your periodic reader surveys to see how much of your audience is actually vaccinated.
golack
Hand out dart guns. Turn it into a game.
Steve_OH
Hand out real guns. Turn it into a Hunger Game.
jte21
Large swaths of the Deep South and Midwest are way behind on vaccinations -- combination of a poor rural healthcare systems, state government apathy, and vaccine hesitancy and/or anti-vax paranoia. It will be fun as the Delta variant starts to get going over the next couple of months in those areas. They think everything's going to go back to normal, but if only 20% of your town or county is vaccinated, and everyone's crowding back into churches, music venues, and bars, it's not going to stay that way for long.
illilillili
Been there, done that. Natural vaccination will come soon enough.
Some remain suspicious,
https://old.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/o60exy/just_w_h_a_t/
I laughed, then, I'm still crying.
This very recent paper -- https://bityl.co/7TjW -- is both scary and possibly a huge breakthrough.
While it's not clear if SARS-COV-2 is able to break the brain barrier directly (they did not find any remnants in the brains they reviewed, but others reportedly have), it turns out the body's immune response triggers inflammation inside the brain, and there are other signs that are consistent with observations from the brains of people with cognitive diseases like ALZ.
The implication here is that Long-COVID might be a much more serious long-term health problem than anyone thought.
Since 2016 or so, studies have shown that the immune system appears to be part of the mechanism that eventually results in ALZ. That Long-COVID and ALZ are both the results of an immune system response, seems rather ominous for the long-term outcomes of the folks who have Long-COVID neurological symptoms.
Risk of death and Long-COVID -- what other motivation do you need?
Very Scary. A contractor who works on my team got COVID shortly after he began working on our service contract in January. He was out for a bit more than a week but now reports brain fog and honestly his work product hasn't been that good. I feel really sorry but for him because the contract ends at the end of month. My suspicion is that the new contractor hasn't offered him a slot on the new contract.
How do you prove you need to be on disability post COVID?
This has been one of the great mysteries of this pandemic.
If it was announced that a new super-contagious respiratory virus was going around that simply caused about 25% of even asymptomatic infections to develop possibly long-term disabling symptoms such as severe brain fog, inability to climb stairs without wheezing, endless fevers, etc, people would be freaking out. But if you take away hospitalizations and deaths entirely, it's looking like this might actually be what Covid is.
Yet the media and the medical establishment barely mention long-haul Covid at all... the conversation always revolves around hospitalizations and deaths, and once they're reduced it means that pandemic is over and we can go back to normal.
I dunno, it definitely makes me feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone. What am I missing? If nothing else, you'd think if they want to get a 25 year old to take the vaccine they'd be banging the Long Covid gong as loudly as they can, since possible lifelong disability really is the risk that they're facing, not death.
Jim in UK, both jabs a couple of months ago . 🙂
Vous avez raison et je suis d'accord !
Even conservatives, who have every right to be hesitant?
Do you have a right to threaten others?
Let me fix that for you: Even conservatives, who have every right to be stupid.
Heh you're preaching to the choir Kevin even if you are an atheist hahaha.
I got mine as soon as I was eligible back in April/May.
I wonder if anyone who reads Kevin with any regularity hasn’t already been vaccinated. Some of the trolls are idiots, but I doubt they are that stupid.
You should consider doing one of your periodic reader surveys to see how much of your audience is actually vaccinated.
Hand out dart guns. Turn it into a game.
Hand out real guns. Turn it into a Hunger Game.
Large swaths of the Deep South and Midwest are way behind on vaccinations -- combination of a poor rural healthcare systems, state government apathy, and vaccine hesitancy and/or anti-vax paranoia. It will be fun as the Delta variant starts to get going over the next couple of months in those areas. They think everything's going to go back to normal, but if only 20% of your town or county is vaccinated, and everyone's crowding back into churches, music venues, and bars, it's not going to stay that way for long.
Been there, done that. Natural vaccination will come soon enough.