Only ignorant charlatans had been looking at the short-term effects of the virus without considering the long-term damage that would unfold, given the mechanisms of the virus. Especially re: vaccinating kids.
Here's another person comparing it to a flu. Unfortunately this guy is an accomplished pathologist that should have known better. He blocked me for this response.
Fluthers do not employ rigorous independent analysis (not in a textbook).
If you leave critical decisions up to charlatans and people that overextend their expertise you end up with repeat waves and reinfections like in India when challenged with new variants.
Infected should have a boost with mrna for variant protection.
studies come out all the time showing this. Only herd immunity apologists who called it wrong and the recklessly ignorant will maintain infection confers better protection.
In regard to the cleveland clinic preprint: Charlatans that cannot contextualize a study with its environment by grasping temporal shifts in context (aka a delta, P1, or b1351 driven encroaching wave) should not be allowed near policy.
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.
B.1.617 has mutations that may *enhance* pathogenesis
A mutation at P681R in combination with L452R and E484Q significantly increases syncitia formation
This is when the cells fuse together, and it's linked to fatal disease.
2/ The Gupta lab found the mutations L452R/E484Q/P681R together significantly increase Syncitia formation.
This is a function of the polybasic cleavage site. Syncitia formation is linked to fatal diseasehttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.08.443253v1
3/ Syncitia are a way the virus kills T cells
This paper in Cell Death and Differentiation discusses how Syncitia internalize T cells in order to kill them
3/ Interestingly, a few case reports have emerged of Parkinson's following infection. thelancet.com/journals/laneu…
A worrisome correlate may exist as seen by this preprint: monkeys had precursors of Parkinson's after infection, called Lewy Bodies biorxiv.org/content/10.110…