SARS-CoV-2 infection is permanent

[mellowtigger]

Point #1 on the sars2.org website is probably the most controversial of the 5 statements made there.  Doctors are now stating as fact on published video, though, what I've been warning about for 2 years as a possibility:
SARS-CoV-2 is a persistent infection.

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong spoke on CNN about autopsies done at Mount Sinai showing viral persistence in organs throughout the body at 7, 10, or even 15 months after exposure.  Move the video to 04:18 to skip directly to the SARS-CoV-2 portion.  His poor wording is self-contradictory, but it's clear what he's intending to express.

https://twitter.com/questCNN/status/1530280196166787074

Dr. Daniel Chertow spoke to NIH about autopsies done for his Emerging Pathogens Section at NIH.  His wording is much more precise.  Around the 10-minute mark, he defines "persistence" as viral rna detected more than 31 days after symptom onset.  For the most interesting point, move the video to 44:00 to hear that they found variants in the brain that were not found in the respiratory system, suggesting that the virus proceeded to adapt during continued activity in the brain after migrating there.  He concedes several limitations of their source cohort of 44 people, selected at a time before any vaccination was available, but it did include samples from a young person's body with the same pattern of activity they found in the older bodies.

https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=45296?jwsource=twi

If you roll back to the 18:40 mark, he'll mention virus detected in the heart (and eye) too.  That's the idea I glommed onto 2 years ago, because of the potential for immune privilege to prohibit cells there from being cleared of infection.  It seems quaint now, since that's the least of our worries.  Basically, SARS-CoV-2 enters several immune privileged sites, while also infecting CD4+ T cells and entering the bone marrow like HIV does.  It is not going away.

Don't get Covid the first time.  If you do, don't get Covid a second time.  If you do, don't get Covid a third time.  Each new wave brings a different variant, and with multiple strains multiplying within one body, they can sometimes combine together into a cross-strain, officially designated "X".  If the worst qualities of both strains should successfully cross, then that new virus would make a bad situation even worse.  The PANGO list of strains shows that cross-strains are happening much less often than plain ol' regular mutations, but cross-strains have already grown in number from "XA" to "XY".  There is only one more English letter left for naming.  I expect the next cross-strain will be designated "XZ", but what will they call the one after that?  They apparently never expected this many when they started tracking.

This is a mass disabling event globally.  Almost 1/2 of humanity (and quickly approaching 2/3 of Americans) are now infected with a virus that causes blood clots and immune suppression.  This party is just getting started.

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[mellowtigger]

I finally went looking for the nomenclature rules for new recombinants. I see in Section II, rule 1j, that they will just append another column of English letters. So after recombinant strain "XZ" will be strain "XAA".