Comprehensive thread on possible prion involvement with SarsCov2 Mad Cov-Disease? New study looks at the possibility that Covid is a prion (a type of protein that can cause degenerative brain diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) aka mad Cow disease

Is Long Covid a prion disease?

"Had COVID? Part of the Virus May Stick Around in Your Brain

Researchers in Germany found that part of the virus, the spike protein, remains in the brain long after the virus clears out..."

New paper comparing #LongCovid patients to matched controls found significantly reduced blood flow all over the brain - frontal, temporal, & parietal lobes.

Middle column in the picture below are healthy controls; red/warm colors = more blood flow. 1/

60% of us who had COVID still might have lingering viral spikes in our heads! Our new study reveals SARS-CoV-2 spike accumulation in the skull-meninges-brain axis & its implications in long COVID. By @zhouyi_rong

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'I'm an artist but long Covid has made my face blindness even worse - sometimes I even struggle to recognise friends'

'Renowned illustrator Stanley Chow has opened up on his experiences living with 'face blindness' as scientists in the US..