Reading this thread from @dgurdasani1 is a bit like the scene from Jaws where the police chief is reading up about sharks, and yells at his kids to get out of the water.
https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1482410862300348426
Naive T- and B-cells have basically disappeared from the circulating blood in people with Long Covid.
These immune cells patrol the body, waiting to find as-yet unencountered foreign invaders, at which point they will activate and fully mature.
These immune cells patrol the body, waiting to find as-yet unencountered foreign invaders, at which point they will activate and fully mature.
You need these cells if your immune system is to learn to fight off any new pathogens.
If these cells are actually gone, that would portend grave consequences for your ability to fight any infectious diseases that you have not yet encountered (and potentially cancers as well).
If these cells are actually gone, that would portend grave consequences for your ability to fight any infectious diseases that you have not yet encountered (and potentially cancers as well).
I hope these naive T- and B-cells are lurking in the spleen or some other place in the body.
Because if they are not, their loss would be expected to cause a significant acquired immunodeficiency. At least that is my understanding of immunology.
What say you, @fitterhappierAJ ?
Because if they are not, their loss would be expected to cause a significant acquired immunodeficiency. At least that is my understanding of immunology.
What say you, @fitterhappierAJ ?
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