Amazing news - paper in @Nature reporting that SARS-CoV-2 acts like a histone, thus blocking host epigenome.

Translation: DNA in our cells is packaged into chromosomes, and these are held together by histones, which are a kind of protein. Histones have to be unwrapped, then

Covering ICU this week and FYI to whomever needs to hear it: COVID attacks your brain, lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, intestines, immune system, and clogs up your blood vessels like a dirty pipe.

You don’t want it.

Wear a mask. Get Vaccinated.

Last month, the US Census released data showing that 7.5% of the entire US is currently experiencing #LongCovid for at least 3 months. That's 1 in 13 people!

If that seems high to you, here's a thread to understand how it can be true.

Excellent piece in @FT on the Longterm effects of Covid

‘This is not something that will go away in a week, in a year, or two, or three. This will reverberate with us for generations'

Thanks to @SarahNev for interviewing me & for replotting data from our @NatureMedicine paper

"Very few people, even at 6 months, have actually metabolically, functionally recovered.

They may have stopped coughing but they've still got a lot of other things wrong with them.” 👨🏾‍🔬JN, Nov’21

EVERYONE STOP AND WATCH—This is what it looks like to live with #longCOVID.

“Everything tastes like dog shit” “I can’t swallow” “My hair is falling out” “My food tastes like it comes from a dumpster housing a dead raccoon🦝”