Ok in my personal circle I know 4 ppl who got shingles after covid too.
“Ok in my personal circle I know 4 ppl who got shingles after covid too.”
So many 'Christmas colds' circulating. I have been alive for over 64 years, and do not remember this level of illness over the holiday period, but by next year this will be considered perfectly normal and (mis)remembered as the way it always was. It's already happening this year.
“So many 'Christmas colds' circulating. I have been alive for over 64 years, and do not remember this level of illness over the holiday period, but by next year this will be considered perfectly normal and (mis)remembered as the way it always was. It's already happening this year.”
Right.
“Right. This is going to be an extremely long thread, because the number of ways that Covid can make you more vulnerable to other infections is loooong.
But here's Ten Ways That Covid Infection Can Open The Door To Other Infections Today:”
Beyond "immunity debt".
“In what ways could SARS-CoV-2 be involved in surges of other infectious diseases like RSV, tuberculosis, fungal infections, Mycoplasma, etc.?
Here is a list of additional hypotheses, all increasingly supported in the scientific literature.
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Reactivated TB is an AIDS-defining condition in people with HIV.
“Reactivated TB is an AIDS-defining condition in people with HIV.
In HIV negative people, logic says TB has changed or people have changed.
Plenty of studies now point to the ways Covid damages the immune system, and we keep allowing ourselves to be convinced it’s “just a cold.”
Everybody has pneumonia.
“Everybody has pneumonia.
My 16 year old neighbour. Three kids in my friend's grade six class. My 45 yo cousin and her 10 yo son. My client. Again. (Antibiotics not working.)
My other neighbour just telling me she lost two siblings to pneumonia in less than a year.
Dark Ages.”post