Thread by @loscharlos

“Viruses hide, that’s what they do,” said @PutrinoLab. “If you’re finding evidence of them in plasma, that probably tells you that there’s a lot more going on in tissue where viruses like to hide, like nerve tissue, gut tissue, joint tissue, et cetera.” #LongCovid

“Walt’s team applied.. blood test 1,000x more sensitive than standard laboratory tests to 1,569 blood samples.. The ultra-sensitive tests, detected fragments of virus’s signature spike proteins in roughly 43% of samples drawn from those [w/] #LongCovid” bostonglobe.com/2024/10/15/met…

“They also found fragments of the proteins in 21% of those who had no symptoms. (It was not clear why the persistent virus did not make them sick, too).” #LongCovid

“The presence of the fragments, which were in such small amounts they would not be detectable using standard technologies, are a smoking gun, experts say.” #LongCovid

“Others have detected.. viral fragments in #LongCovid patients before, @PutrinoLab said the new study is among the most comprehensive.

The fact that it was funded by @NIH.. is ‘very important’.. federal officials may finally be willing to listen to front line LC researchers”

@PutrinoLab @NIH “The traditional medical establishment, including NIH, @PutrinoLab said, has been slow to embrace the viral persistence theory, because it defies conventional medical thinking. Until recently, many argued viruses that replicate using RNA.. are incapable of persisting in the body”

@PutrinoLab @NIH “The key to the current study was a single molecule test called SIMOA that he developed in his lab more than a decade ago to detect cancer. It uses tiny beads attached to antibodies that are engineered to seek out and stick to specific proteins”

@Silas33 @PutrinoLab @polybioRF @LongCOVIDPhysio @LongCovidSOS @long_covid @LongCovidKids @LongCovidFam @C19LH_Advocacy @NIH @PeoplesCDC @CDCgov I know we’re all shellshocked about the fascistic reign of Twitter terror that anyone questioning this theory being bombarded as enemy of the state — we should be able to have these discussions in good faith without any fear of harassment.