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https://www.salon.com/2024/02/02/zombie-19-fragments-linger-for-some-causing-severe-disease-outcomes-new-research-reveals/>
'Though the COVID-19 pandemic has largely faded from the public mind,
infections are still very common and not always benign like the flu. There is a
link between inflammation, the immune system and COVID-19 that is not yet quite
understood — and it could still be causing thousands of deaths and
disabilities.
As
Salon has previously reported, severe cases of COVID can trigger a
hyperinflammatory response called a "cytokine storm" so intense that it seems
to exhaust the T cells critical to immune function and decrease their number.
There has been evidence to suggest this can impact the immune system's ability
to fight future infections from both COVID-19 and other diseases as well. More
recently, researchers found that the inflammation caused by COVID-19 in
pregnant women led to an inflammatory response in their infants causing
respiratory distress after birth.
There is something specific about a SARS-CoV-2 infection, the virus that causes
COVID, and how it can sometimes lead to an overactive immune response. Yet the
way in which this occurs remains a mystery.
But now, researchers at the University of California-Los Angeles say they are
one step closer to understanding how COVID-19 can result sometimes in severe
outcomes or death while other coronaviruses like the common colds don’t. The
answer, they believe, lies in so-called “zombie” virus fragments that linger
and cause inflammation long after the virus has been destroyed. '
Via Violet Blue’s
Pandemic Roundup: February 8, 2024
https://www.patreon.com/posts/pandemic-roundup-98087707
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
