1. Covid likely can damage the blood brain barrier 2. Covid directly infects neurons and other brain cell types 3. We are reinfecting everyone with Covid over and over.
What range of outcomes could you foresee from this?
"At some point we're going to have to have a discussion nobody wants to, one about how repeated COVID infections have left our children with permanent neurological changes / damage and how we are going to adjust our academic standards and expectations"
Signs put up in Brooklyn
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Not a joke. It's based on the accumulating evidence we have about covid causing brain damage. In adults, covid, even mild, causes average of 3 IQ point drop, and 2 more for reinfection. How is this impacting child brain development?
Good summary of much of the available science here.
Remember, kids are supposed to be *always getting smarter* so you can't understand how their brains are being impacted by only looking for instances where cognition decreases. What is the rate of gain?
Our new letter in @JAMAPediatrics points out obvious, grievous errors in a recent study claiming “strikingly low” incidence of Post Covid Condition in children.
The study is clearly invalid and should be retracted.
A thread.
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Here is a link to the open access study, where you can confirm everything I am saying.
And yes, the pic in the first tweet is them citing a WHO definition of Post Covid Condition (PCC) and then completely changing the definition in their Methods.
Bear in mind this research has been picked up by major media outlets to argue kids are not at risk of long covid, meaning kids' able bodies and lives are at stake. And the research is very bad.
We know that COVID can cause lymphocytopenia and that reinfection is common. It's in the Merck Manual for MDs. COVID is the only virus other than HIV specifically listed as a major cause of lymphocytopenia:
Alberta finally gets a covid update. Yes, that is mere CASES of RSV and flu being presented alongside HOSPITALIZATIONs for COVID.
Modelling from @MoriartyLab suggests 47,000-65,000 are getting COVID in AB per week RN. Apparently COVID is not just a flu, who would have thunk.
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Almost all illness right now is COVID or secondarily, common cold. And COVID come with a serious risk of Long COVID, as high as 20% in women according to recent Statistics Canada information.
I speculate that the "new dashboard" which will include influenza and RSV, while potentially providing useful information, will also be designed to amplify false equivocation of covid with lesser diseases.
This study had some other unusual findings as well, so we will see how it proceeds through peer review. @Daltmann10 could perhaps comment on the section regarding possible immune imprinting resulting in increased risk of infection for those who are highly vaccinated?
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Regardless of this one study, the evidence is mounting that we are utterly failing in our race against the virus' mutation. And we have to pray that immune experience will play a massive role in saving people while we work on second generation scientific solutions.
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