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Moody Monday: SARS-CoV-2, in other words
2022-Sep-05, Monday 10:42 amLet's hear what notable doctors are saying about this pandemic, what I claim is a 1) blood clotting and 2) immune suppressing 3) persistent infection. I wish doctors wrote blog pages, but they're using Twitter instead, so that's where I'm finding their observations and suggestions.
Some resources: There's this excellent thread on "what you should do" by Dr. Kashif Pirzada, this recommendation by Dr. Arghavan Salles on how to interpret CO2 monitoring as a proxy for infection danger, and this recommendation by Dr. James Smith on 5 things you can do to improve air ventilation. If you're looking for therapeutics, this thread is the best summary I've seen so far, but new studies are already in the works.
( Read more of the bad news... )
I've told you my fears about "covid brain" already. Responding to this Financial Times article about long term consequences of infection:
My translation: "You can never achieve herd immunity with a virus that damages the immune system. Wear your [long expletive rant] mask!"
From someone hearing the same immune dysfunction alarm (some knew since 2020) that I've been warning about lately:
Quoting this report from 2020 (meaning that we've known for a long time):
Stay safe out there.
Some resources: There's this excellent thread on "what you should do" by Dr. Kashif Pirzada, this recommendation by Dr. Arghavan Salles on how to interpret CO2 monitoring as a proxy for infection danger, and this recommendation by Dr. James Smith on 5 things you can do to improve air ventilation. If you're looking for therapeutics, this thread is the best summary I've seen so far, but new studies are already in the works.
( Read more of the bad news... )
I've told you my fears about "covid brain" already. Responding to this Financial Times article about long term consequences of infection:
We need to prepare for large increases in cardiovascular, neurological & mental health disorders in countries affected by the #SARSCoV2 #pandemic
- Twitter, Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist, World Health Organization
- Twitter, Soumya Swaminathan, Chief Scientist, World Health Organization
My translation: "You can never achieve herd immunity with a virus that damages the immune system. Wear your [long expletive rant] mask!"
Political thinking about COVID
- Twitter, Professor Steve Robson PhD, President of the American Medical Association
- Twitter, Professor Steve Robson PhD, President of the American Medical Association
From someone hearing the same immune dysfunction alarm (some knew since 2020) that I've been warning about lately:
I do lymphocyte subsets on all long covid when possible. Many have low cd4 lymphocytes just like hiv.. I have documented reactivation of cmv. Ebv zoster. This is scarily similar to hiv induced immunosuppressive
- Twitter, Dr. Jack Lambert, 2022 July 03
- Twitter, Dr. Jack Lambert, 2022 July 03
Quoting this report from 2020 (meaning that we've known for a long time):
“No symptoms doesn’t mean there’s no problem” Virtually all children infected with COVID-19 show signs of blood vessel damage, study shows.
- Twitter, Lee Welton Croll PhD Child Psychiatry, 2022 August 29
- Twitter, Lee Welton Croll PhD Child Psychiatry, 2022 August 29
Stay safe out there.