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Tl;Dw - Physics Girl, a popular science education YouTuber, is on an indefinite hiatus due to complications from long COVID resulting in chronic fatigue. The video has a lot more detail about the severity of her condition and her husband's efforts to care for her. Her friends are asking people to consider subscribing to her Patreon.
which is here: https://www.patreon.com/physicsgirl
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which is here: https://www.patreon.com/physicsgirl
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Worth noting that Simone [1] had some serious health challenges of her own not too long ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x5XRQ07sjU
Something about being a female STEM YouTuber...
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This article sounds like it was written by a 9 year old
The data is probably not wrong. It’s probably taken out of context though. But you can get the same issues from contracting COVID.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7035e5.htm
Which looks like an order of magnitude greater from getting the real thing.
I find people are really not good at considering other scenarios and ball parking risk. Or maybe they just want to be contrarian.
I think one thing that took me by surprise is just how COVID seems to damage the immune system in some people, causing T cell exhaustion (chronic exposure to an antigen causing molecular changes in T cell expression so there's more inhibitory receptors and they're not as functional).
If you've noticed some strange symptoms a few months after having COVID, like thrush, unexpected autoimmune issues, or just feel like infections hit you a lot harder nowadays, I highly recommend doing a lymphocyte subpanel blood test.
You can order them online. Might help clarify some things.
I'm currently using a protein called Thymic Protein-A to increase my CD4+ T cell counts and it's been somewhat successful in making me feel better (doubled my lymphocytes which were on the low end for a few years in about a week), though time will tell whether or not it's ultimately a successful treatment (especially since CD4+ T cell counts increase at a rate of about 10 cells per microliter in healthy human adults).
Just my two cents. Obviously it's different for everyone. But I think every bit of information counts while we're still trying to figure this thing out.