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This may be the most important graph of the pandemic so far.
2/ We know that 3 infections compared to one can result in an increase in health problems.
8 x risk of being hospitalised
5x risk of cardiovascular disease
4 x risk of blood clots
nature.com/articles/s4159…
3/ Obviously individual risk will depend on your risk to start with.
However, if that’s what it looks like after 3 infections, what will it look like after 10?
4/ what’s the end game here?
#XBB15 is even more infectious. And possibly more evasive to vaccines and prior immunity.
A more infectious, evasive variant means more infections.
More infections= see graph above.
More infections=more new variants.
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And a reminder- Covid is a vascular disease (of the blood vessels), not a respiratory disease.
We can’t even get anti-viral treatment for all these infections, unless highly vulnerable.
All should have access to treatment given the sequelae above.
Lastly. Children. How many infections will they get in childhood?
We have no lasting immunity.
They are going to keep being re-infected.
May as well add in the viral persistence research (as if reinfection data and vascular inflammation wasn’t bad enough)
Are we even clearing infections between infections?
What if you have 2 variants persisting at once?
This is why I can’t sleep 😴
The paper this is from is nature.com/articles/s4159… lead researcher @zalaly The adapted graph is by @Wikisteff and the data is from figure 5 of the paper. Thanks to all.
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