https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/long-covid-may-be-an-autoimmune-disease
"Blood samples from patients with long COVID who were still suffering from
fatigue and shortness of breath after a year show signs of autoimmune disease,
according to Canadian and US scientists. The team recruited 106 people who had
been diagnosed with COVID-19, and 22 healthy volunteers and 34 people who had
experienced a non-COVID respiratory infection for comparison. Three, six and 12
months after COVID-19 recovery, they were asked if they were suffering any long
COVID symptoms, and blood samples were taken to look for antibodies known to
contribute to autoimmune diseases. Nearly 80% of COVID-19 patients had two or
more of these antibodies three months and six months after the infection, but
this fell to 41% after a year. Most of the healthy volunteers had none of these
antibodies in their blood and in those who had a non-COVID respiratory
infection, levels of these antibodies were low. However, the team found that
two specific antibodies, along with other proteins that cause inflammation,
persisted in around 30% of COVID patients a year after infection."
Via Wilco Roos, who wrote:
"Ouch, that would be bad, as we have hardly any definitive cure for any
Autoimmune decease as it is :-S
So a new one will be a big problem certainly with the numbers of long-covid
sufferers, the amount of people with those symptoms is ever rising :-( But at
least they now now where to look, and a way to test if you have or have not
illness.
So far for the idiots claiming ‘it is just a flu’
That mention alone is monumentally stupid if you know how many people die of
the flu each year, it shows the disregard for them. The ones sneering are
clearly those who claim ‘the flu’ with each sniffle (a cold) instead of ever
having been infected with the real flu.
But whatever, this is drifting to far away from the article.
Now we seem to know in what corner we need to look for this culprit, can we
also push heaps of money into finding a cure, before we have a legion of people
unable to function in society caused by Covid?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
