Many, not only long Covid patients, experience so called brain fog after being infected with SARS-Cov-2. Now scientists at Karolinska Institutet have discovered why: broken connections in the brain.
Author: 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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Millions have Long Covid: more expected to get it.
Long Covid is a big deal. It has the ability to potentially wreck a nations economy. And it destroys lives. Read more here.
Att Covid-19 påverkar hjärnan har vi vetat ett par år redan, men hur och varför har inte varit helt klarlagt. Här kommer en ytterligare pusselbit.
More and more proof sees the light of day that Covid-19 at least to some degree affects T-cells and either kill them or exhaust them. This is bad news as we have a finite number of T-cells and it also means that the more Covid-infections we have, the fewer working T-cell we will have.
48% has remains fatigue after covid. That’s a lot. To put it short.
As humans push further and further into animal habits and their space decrease, the risk of transfer of harmful patogens increase. It might have been what happened with Covid-19’s SARS-Cov-2.
Both children with long covid and those considered fully recovered showed reduced lung capacity after covid. Both ventilation and perfusion (oxygen getting through to the blood) showed significant decrease compared to the control, group. Albeit a small study, this tells us that Covid-19 is certainly not harmless for children and that a large percentage contract lung damage even in mild infections.
It is kind of obvious that mask should make a difference. especially if we are talking respirator masks (N95/Ffp2/Kn95 etc) that are designed to protect the bearer from patogens like viruses. What we have sort of lacked is a real world comparison between a larger number of schools that keeps mask requirements and schools that remove mask requirements. And the result is clear: it makes a big difference. The first link is to the Time article about the NEJM published study.
https://time.com/6231516/universal-masking-in-school-works-new-data-shows-how-well/
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2211029?query=featured_home
Blood clots affect all ages.
Extended coagulation profile of children with Long Covid: a prospective study
Yep. Once again, mild acute infection doesn’t mean your out of the woods; it is still pretty likely you will end up with brain damage. Enjoy…