Thread by @NjbBari3

Single case report.

“This case appears to confirm the concerns that the CD4+ T-cell depletion associated with COVID-19 may promote the development of active tuberculosis from latent infection much like HIV does.”

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

So far

🔴EBV reactivation
🔴Possible TB reactivation
🔴Possible reduced ability to manage adenovirus
🔴Possible increased susceptibility to mould infections

You can’t see a pattern?

Acquired immune deficiency.

That’s what we call it.

When you start off with a standard immune system, and then you end up in a situation where you can’t fight off pathogens, or even ubiquitous environmental bugs that we basically can’t avoid.

I sit in my house, poring through research and case reports, and sometimes it makes me feel physically sick with worry.

The good news is we have already got some antivirals, and I think we will get more therapies. ->

Don’t freak out and give up hope… but do work hard on prevention.

#CutDownTransmission

Immune deficiency can be mild, or more severe… and just because a virus shares some characteristics with other viruses, doesn’t make it the same, nor does it mean it’s “engineered”.

Also, I am going to get badly trolled for these thoughts, so I’m going to mute. Sorry.