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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I wonder how many have tried Ivermectin, if so.
Try six grams each of NAC and glycine daily.
Combine that with a gram each of NMN and NR.
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