Chilean ArcanaDec 15, 2022
Kd nerdychic

Yikes - Covid was detected in 84 distinct anatomical locations and body fluids, and up to seven months past initial infection! When they say it affects all organs, they aren't exaggerating. This is a sample of 44 autopsies.

SARS-CoV-2 infection and persistence in the human body and brain at autopsy | Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05542-y
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SARS-CoV-2 infection and persistence in the human body and brain at autopsy - Nature

A study reports the distribution, replication and persistence of SARS-CoV-2 throughout the human body including in the brain at autopsy from acute infection to more than seven months following symptom onset.

Nature
Dec 14, 2022 at 9:49pmWeb
Show threadDave MuthDec 14, 2022

@kdelucca30
Thank you Kd nerdychic, for pointing me to these two great science articles on COVID-19's effects:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05542-y
and
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abm2052

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SARS-CoV-2 infection and persistence in the human body and brain at autopsy - Nature

A study reports the distribution, replication and persistence of SARS-CoV-2 throughout the human body including in the brain at autopsy from acute infection to more than seven months following symptom onset.

Nature
Show threadKyle HasegawaDec 15, 2022

@kdelucca30 I don't have a medical background. How does this compare this to other infections like influenza, RSV, HVP, rotavirus etc.?

How unique and concerning is this?

Show threadKd nerdychicDec 15, 2022
@KyleHase
Oh gosh, where to start? So the big message in this is that Covid is not just a respiratory disease and not a get-over-the-minor illness type of thing. As you can see, it affects almost all organs and anything with a blood vessel (yah, that's everything). Flu pretty much comes and goes. Major virus like chicken pox had a hidden virus (shingles) that we see resurfacing. I suspect Covid does too. We already know it kills off the immune system. Lasting effects I fear.
Show threadSiderea, Sibylla BostoniensisDec 15, 2022

@kdelucca30 @KyleHase
Oh, as chicken pox is to shingles and as it was just discovered that Epstein-Barr is to MS, it's looking like influenza might well be to Parkinson's.

The answer of how Covid compares to other respiratory illnesses is: we don't rightly know, because we, as a civilization, have failed to study them sufficiently, and only lately has it been coming to our attention that there are some epidemiological elephants in the room.

Show threadSiderea, Sibylla BostoniensisDec 15, 2022
@kdelucca30 @KyleHase That measles causes immune amnesia was only discovered in 2012. (see: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211112-the-people-with-immune-amnesia ) It has been amazing and horrifying what we've been discovering just over the last decade about how much more dangerous are the infectious illnesses we thought we knew.
Measles: The race to understand 'immune amnesia'

Scientists have known for years that measles can alter the immune system – but the latest evidence suggests it's less of a mild tweaking, and more of a total reset.

BBC
Show threadSiderea, Sibylla BostoniensisDec 15, 2022
@kdelucca30 @KyleHase Nor is the problem constrained to respiratory illnesses. Most recently: it is looking like some/all rheumatoid arthritis is caused by a prior bacterial GI infection that causes a permanent autoimmune disorder. (See https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-a-unique-gut-bacteria-that-may-cause-arthritis/ )
Scientists Discover a Unique Gut Bacteria That May Cause Arthritis

A bacterium has been identified by the CU Division of Rheumatology that may trigger rheumatoid arthritis in those who are already at risk. Researchers at the University of Colorado School of Medicine have found that a unique bacteria found in the gut may be responsible for causing rheumatoid arthri

SciTechDaily
Show threadSiderea, Sibylla BostoniensisDec 15, 2022
@kdelucca30 @KyleHase For most of a century, entertaining hypotheses about infectious causes of disease has been strangely unfashionable in medical science. We simply didn't ask the questions. In fairness many of the tools we use today for such science are recent inventions, so even if one did want to do the work it was prohibitive. But there's still a tremendous bias against infectious causes in medical science to this day - a wave breaking on a rock called Covid.
Show threadPeta MortonDec 15, 2022
@kdelucca30 In France they routinely test for the different strains. I tested positive for two different variants at the same time.
Show threadJusticeMoorDec 15, 2022

@kdelucca30

When my grandson came down with COVID it did not affect his respiratory system but his stomach and organs. Very strange.