Detailed analysis on Twitter: "As of now, people choose whether or not they have Long Covid based upon their symptoms
However, if most people, after mild infection have changes to their immune systems like reductions in plasmacytoid dendritic cells, without reporting symptoms, what should this be called?"
the gravity of reinfecting Covid's immunity damage
Measles immunity amnesia is a one-off thing
Covid reinfects and the harm to the immune system is worse and easier to appreciate
T cells are aged
Australian immunologists discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the immune system, and how this could worsen future risk for other infections.
It has to do with altered function or reprogramming of immune cells, rather than depleted numbers.
Detailed analysis thread on Twitter: What do we have today? A ton of unexplained child illness in the first cold/flu season since we let COVID rip. Hmm.
We have known since 2020 that COVID harms interferon production, a protein that your cells release to call the immune system for help when they are attacked.
So why are so many kids experiencing severe illness from seasonal viruses?
Emerging evidence suggests COVID-19 may be to blame
SarsCov2: “…Eerily similar to HIV. McComsey, who has spent the last two decades studying HIV, said that the data they have found so far paints a picture that is eerily familiar.
‘Now I just look at it, and I’m like gosh, it’s like a déjà vu,’…”
Postacute COVID-19 is Characterized by Gut Viral Antigen Persistence in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases ” SARS-CoV-2 antigen persistence in infected tissues serves as a basis for postacute COVID-19.”
Oct 1 2021, Title: Uncertainty around the Long-Term Implications of COVID-19 ”perspective on some long-term risks of mutational escape, viral persistence, reinfection, immune dysregulation and neurological and multi-system complications (Long COVID).”
Mar 11 2021, Title, HLA class I–associated expansion of TRBV11-2 T cells in multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. This paper discusses superantigens in terms of MIS-C in children.
Detailed explainer thread with 25 linked studies on Twitter: Immunity debt vs post covid immune deficiency (PCID). Not an immunology expert, but here are 25 papers/articles that collectively argue for PCID. Immunity debt is a made up term that reflects poor science.
Detailed analysis of study on Twitter: This is huge. ➡️ 8 months to rebuild T-cell & B-cell count after mild to moderate COVID, which leaves people open to other infections!
It's no wonder many kids are having more severe symptoms.
These viruses are spreading at an exponential rate with unmitigated schools.
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