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Covid affects the immune system long after infection is over (in severe cases)

There are coming reports on Covid’s effects on the immune system, and neither of them are sunny. This study from the Linköping University in Sweden shows that severe cases has long lasting effects on T-cells and other parts of the immune system similar to chronic HIV-infections. Yet another reason to not get infected.

https://liu.se/en/news-item/svar-covid-19-ger-langvariga-negativa-effekter-pa-immunforsvaret

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2022.931039/full

Peter Lindberg

By Peter Lindberg

Peter Lindberg is a commercial photographer & videographer, once educated to become an electronics engineer. Always been a science buff and interested in medicine and technology. Main hobbies are cars/racing and music. Lives in the western Sweden countryside farmland locally called "Schlätta".

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