Lots of links to legitimate sources showing that #SARS-CoV-2 frequently leaves lasting damage, including brain and cardiovascular damage, even after a "mild" #COVID-19 infection.
I don't believe that #SARS-CoV-2 was bioengineered, but I do believe the lab's researchers were investigating something they had collected in the wild and it got loose.
> New research looks at the effects of repeated Covid infections and finds pretty much what you would expect: you not only do not get any kind of superimmunity, you increase your risk of long-term consequences, hospitalization and death. The worse news is that this holds true regardless of vaccination status.
From 2021: composition of gut microbiome altered in #COVID-19 patients.
> The composition of the gut microbiome is altered in patients with COVID-19, with the perturbed composition correlating with disease severity
and
> obtained blood, stool, and patient records from 100 patients with laboratory-confirmed severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in a two-hospital cohort study. Up to 30 days after clearance of SARS-CoV-2, serial stool samples were collected from 27 of the 100 patients.
> A COVID infection can reduce the number of bacterial species in the gut, creating an opportunity for dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria to thrive
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> The study is the first to show that COVID alone damages the gut microbiome, researchers said. Before now, doctors had suspected that the use of antibiotics to treat COVID had been damaging gut bacteria.
Both articles stopped short of saying that #SARS-CoV-2 directly attacks certain gut bacteria. Perhaps something that the human body does in response to the infection also kills off beneficial organisms in the intestines.
We had one guy who had some undiagnosed ailment for two days last week. He was coughing and sneezing furiously, and barely able to keep his eyes open.
The management argued furiously about whether they should send him home. They finally sent him home. The next day, he spent an hour in the men's room puking, so they argued some more before sending him home.
That's the perfect response if you want illness to spread throughout the office.
Epstein-Barr virus ( #EBV ) reactivation may be involved in some of the "long-COVID" symptoms ... study shows increased EBV reactivation in long-COVID patients.
Rapid antigen tests have increase false negative rates versus the Omicron variant of #COVID-19 ... apparently, that strain of the #SARS-CoV-2 #coronavirus has a sufficiently different protein coat that tests show reduced sensitivity.
Rapid antigen tests may not catch early #COVID-19 infections, even though patient is already contagious, spreading #SARS-CoV-2 particles in their breath.
If the #SARSCoV2 variant #Omicron (B.1.1.529) keeps its promise, then it will thwart the current vaccines. Booster innoculations may or may not increase resistance against this variant. But far more important is that if the variant indeed undercuts the vaccines, then, by the same token, it will evade detectibility by all current anti-gene tests. And that means that we cannot detect infections on time, and that means we're back at March 2020.
Many unexpected US deaths not recorded as #COVID-19 deaths. Authors speculate that many may have been directly or indirectly caused by the #SARS-CoV-2 #coronavirus. #2019-nCoV