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RE: https://disabled.social/@tomkindlon/116439877450294177
Odds ratio of 2.4x for developing Long COVID from this one genotype!
So there's a significant inheritable risk factor which otherwise is not associated with any disease.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07853890.2026.2654244 via @tomkindlon
then should shift focus to protecting this population, as well as the legacy effects of the waves to date).
The latter may be increasingly showing in clinical data see eg
https://x.com/i/status/2045947022528934137
and should prompt and honest reappraisal of the role of viral infections in general and covid in particular in oncology, chronic cardiovascular , neuropsychiatric, autoimmune and kidney disease.
The independent research by a world renowned breast cancer oncologist at UCLA, Dr Aditya Barda, breaks news today at AACR that consistently shows regardless of the stage of BREAST CANCER, that post Covid lymphopenia results in poorer prognosis, poorer response to treatment and
At the same time, the decrease in severity of the acute presentation means less initial damage. Both mechanisms would lead to a decreasing incidence and thus prevalence of long covid. However newborns and kids who are not vaccinated are experiencing covid as it first appeared in the post Omi period. Assuming some variants like the 3.2 are more likely for whatever reason to infect kids (a point I will concede now to @SolidEvidence)
Notwithstanding the uncertainty, the total number of infections are declining with time, so people are getting fewer opportunities to reinfection. If most LC is the result of the acute damage + persistence (and secondary immune response to infection) as detailed here
https://open.substack.com/pub/christosargyropoulos/p/busting-delusions-about-long-covid
the increase in the interval between successive infections mean that one gets a longer break to heal and inflammation to cool down.
@BlakeMMurdoch at X directed me to this post in reddit about interpretation of wastewater data, and their translatability to number of acute covid19 infections
https://www.reddit.com/r/ZeroCovidCommunity/s/qilLQDLvOL
A somewhat neglected part of the wastewater signals to infection models is the delineation of the sources.
Those are not just acute infections but also include chronic infections which don't transmit forward.
I took one of these models for a ride with Gemini
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