Posted on 02/15/2023 2:57:38 PM PST by ConservativeMind
"Long COVID is estimated to affect one out of every five people who get COVID," says Brent Palmer, Ph.D. "It's described as persistent symptoms that last longer than four weeks post-initial infection."
Palmer has a theory as to why long COVID—also known as post-acute sequelae of COVID, or PASC—is happening: viral reservoirs that linger in the body.
"We found a very pronounced high frequency of cytotoxic CD8 T cells in the individuals with PASC," he adds. "These responses were up to 100 times higher in the PASC group than in the individuals who didn't have long-term, persistent symptoms."
Palmer was astonished to see that a few people six months out from their initial infection had nearly 50% of their T cells directed against COVID-19.
Palmer found an inverse correlation between pulmonary function and the frequency of COVID-19-specific T cells in the blood.
"We think it's an overexaggerated immune response that's causing the problem," he says. "It has been shown that individuals who died of severe acute COVID had virus all over their body. When they do autopsies on these individuals, they can find virus in the brain, the kidney, the lung, and the gut."
A subsequent PASC study, shows that the composition of gut bacteria in the stool of individuals with PASC is associated with elevated inflammation markers in the blood, suggesting that there is an association between gut microbiome and systemic inflammation in PASC.
Both studies, Palmer says, suggest that an antiviral medication such as Paxlovid could be an effective treatment for PASC.
"There have been studies in individuals with long COVID that have shown that vaccination causes a modest decrease in symptoms," he says. "Other studies have shown that giving patients Paxlovid can suppress viral replication, and once suppressed, the virus-specific immune response will drop off.
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Strikes me as more junk science.
Once again, thanks for your kind efforts in monitoring the latest in health news and passing it on to Freepers at large.
Any unvaxxed with long covid?
I know of one.
I know one, but he subsequently got the vaccine, when it came out. It didn’t help him.
You are most welcome, Zhang Fei.
“What we hypothesize is that there’s residual virus somewhere in the body, but it’s not detected by a nasal swab. theorize ... the COVID virus that remains hidden in the body post-initial infection.”
and yet, not one iota of actual evidence is presented in the entire article to support that hypothesis ... all they did was show that T-cells are overactive against covid-19 ... so, it’s just as likely that the T-cells are activated against some protein from the virus that remains in the body ... or possibly even active against a natural, endogenous protein SIMILAR to a covid-19 protein ...
Me. Initial symptoms were mild several months ago. Now they’re not so mild and I just got back from the doctor.
An antiviral wouldn’t likely help against a non-viral entity, yet, antivirals did help.
You have a good point under other circumstances, though.
Also, do note they said autopsies find a lot of the virus all over the body, in long-termers.
Sorry to hear that. I hope and pray you feel better. What are your symptoms?
Symptoms now I mean.
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Have you considered using Ivermectin and one of the associated protocols? (Dr Z, FLCCC, etc.) A friend of mine had what his doc told him was “long covid” that lasted almost a full year. One week on IVM, Dr Z’s method, and he was back in action.
Dang, good luck man.
Some reading for you.
https://covid19criticalcare.com/treatment-protocols/i-recover-long-covid-treatment/
BKMK
This was discussed well before vaxes existed, so yes.
Hogwash. There’s evidence the virus goes latent.
I’ve been saying that since 2020, but this research exposes that they are simply NOT studying the virus.
THAT is the real story.
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