When controlling for age, body habitus, and other variables, people who had covid had sizes of key brain structures 4 standard deviations below average.
These changes were not found to be different whether one was hospitalized or not.
The one metric where size increased post covid- ventricle volume- is a good marker for loss of brain matter. This usually increases with age.
And before people tell you this was unexpected- no. This was predictable. Furin cleavage sites confer neurotropism and this was my primary concern with the virus. With the knowledge it had a Sag, the situation appeared more dire. Downplayers are culpable.
I have been trying to convey this clear risk to people like Prasad and Munro who advocate to have kids in classrooms despite circulating neurotropic viruses with furin cleavage sites and superantigens.
Whether intentional or not, it seems to me all pathologically salient features of the virus like the Furin cleavage Site and SEB Superantigen were downplayed bc they went hand in hand with stoking the possibility of modifications a lá Gain of Function, whether true or not.
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In August an immunologist declared the "Leonardi Effect" had received a "decent burial"
Fast forward to today: a new preprint shows what I warned about in 2020
Persistent SARS-CoV-2-induced impairment of CD8 T cell responses to community-acquired pathogens
I was right 1/5
Key finding: Post-COVID patients show markedly reduced T cell reactivity to common pathogens (influenza, Staph, VCZ) which is evidence of lasting immune dysregulation favoring secondary infections and viral reactivation
@Bryce_Nickels This is absolutely false because he made a “noble lie” and said the N 95s would not work for the public to the public in order for there to be greater supply to healthcare workers only. This backfired.
@Bryce_Nickels The ethical approach was the truth. This is a similar noble lie by omission that the WHO made when they refused to declare Covid as airborne in order for impoverished health systems to provide “adequate” PPE per their regulations according to WHO standards
@Bryce_Nickels The end result was workers in impoverished systems were being given “adequate “PPE for droplet transmission, and many of them died, including sadly many in New York City.