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Long Covid: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations

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Re: Long Covid: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations

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You can't draw conclusions like this from one data point, because there's no baseline to compare it to. Not sure what kind of productive discussion you are expecting here.

They aren't seeking to be productive

Obviously, that was rhetorical.

Re: Long Covid: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations

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Significantly worse than the flu - multi systemic organ damage. The narrative that covid is like the flu, is both wildly inaccurate as this paper explains, and also dangerous, leading to a more cavalier attitude towards covid prevention.

There was a flu pandemic 100 years ago which killed 21 million.

There was probably another coronavirus pandemic 134 years ago that killed a lot of people worldwide.

https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.13889

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As always, it is difficult to assess this sort of thing without a reference to the flu. As far as I can tell, in daily life we are continuously encountering people with various chronic problems and systemically under-calling the impact of them. It is a total coincidence if a body is functioning at full capacity. If COVID increases the hazard ratios there isn't much I can do. As far as I can tell, everyone is going to…

>As far as I can tell, everyone is going to get COVID Not if everyone gets antibodies first.

Antibodies decline with time and don't necessarily prevent injection. Cellular immunity is more important.

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> but you’re still not allowed to say that. you literally just said it.

His post is currently greyed out (downvoted), so that may not be the best evidence against his claim...

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What are liver supper supplements? Is there any research on this?

I found popular ones on Amazon. I tried it because of doing research on my high numbers for Epstein-Barr (aka mono). I found via NIH papers that liver issues are common with mono patients so I figured I could be having that since there were no other obvious blood results. I had Covid beforehand and when I had extreme fatigue I had the mono tests done. The EBV numbers were off the charts and then I found some NIH pape…

What is the active ingredient of that supplement?

Re: Long Covid: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations

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Except for me and many others long covid symptoms got worse after vaccination. Additionally new research is uncovering serious and significant risks for the vaccine with fairly marginal protection benefits.

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Not entirely. There's some of that yes, but the reality is regardless of the source of the spike protein when it gets into tissues it causes damage and that damage can be long term. It's all about what the protein is binding to or what tissues it gets in and how the body's immune system responds to that. It's the immune system responding that is doing the most damage and the lingering effects from that.

Re: Long Covid: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations

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COVID-19 is no joke. I know people want to move on with their lives, but people should stick to N95/KN-95/KF-94/FFP2/FFP3 masks for the time being unless we want to create a massive health care crisis and ruin the global economy as the if people get reinfected every few months, this would be imminent!

Re: Long Covid: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations

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COVID-19 is no joke. I know people want to move on with their lives, but people should stick to N95/KN-95/KF-94/FFP2/FFP3 masks for the time being unless we want to create a massive health care crisis and ruin the global economy as the if people get reinfected every few months, this would be imminent!

Where I live people do get reinfected every few months because masks are gone, and this is not a major problem.

Most of the long COVID cases stem from the first and second waves here.

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> As far as I can tell, everyone is going to get COVID This is a common feeling, but remember: You can greatly affect the probability of an infection through precautions. And if unlucky, you can greatly affect the number of times you get infected through precautions. Fewer infections, fewer rolls of the dice. As far as I'm aware, I'm still infection free and hope to remain so. I am in a much better situation than mos…

I've also not been infected that I'm aware of, although there were a couple episodes that might have been Covid. I'm tempted to pay for a blood test to check for antibodies, it only costs about $60.

Won't the vaccine trigger the production of antibodies?

Re: Long Covid: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations

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I've also not been infected that I'm aware of, although there were a couple episodes that might have been Covid. I'm tempted to pay for a blood test to check for antibodies, it only costs about $60.

resistance in your immune system is recorded in a more complicated way, you cannot do a simple test to check for covid resistance

I don't want to check for resistance, I want to know if I've had it. I was looking at this IgG/IgM antibody serology testing. [0] Is this unreliable?

[0] https://www.questdiagnostics.com/healthcare-professionals/ab...

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