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Did Covid damage my immune system?

The short answer: most likely.

https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2022/0926/1325480-covid-immune-system-infectious-diseases-colds-flu/

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Safety and Effectiveness of SA58 Nasal Spray against COVID-19 Infection in Medical Personnel:An Open-label, Blank-controlled Study

Nasal spray vs Covid-19? Yes, this is a preprint of a study of a broad-spectrum antibody against COVID-19 as a nasal spray. The result is protection of above 70%. Read more via the link below.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.27.22283698v1?fbclid=IwAR38Y8XZZAxxnrg-kc-yz01VP1Sq7dNAA__kkCb3joGAwzsdtt7MlqU3AV8

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Airborne transmission of respiratory viruses

Science ha s been a bit lazy on common respiratory viruses. It hasn’t been that many studies done before Covid-19, but here it is: they pretty much all are mostly airborne.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abd9149

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The Explanation For Brain Fog From Covid-19

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.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/why-does-covid-19-cause-brain-fog-answer-immune-inflammation-synapse

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Every reinfection increases the risk to health

Every time a person is infected with the SARS-Cov-2 virus, the risk for permanent damages increases.

https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/every-reinfection-increases-the-risk-to-health/article65562513.ece/amp/

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It seems not all Covid-19 patients develop antibodies

Note eryone develops antibodies against SARS-Cov-2 when infected. It isn’t suprising since it is a common result when the same thing is investigated in other viral infections. Many factors are involved.

https://www.labroots.com/trending/coronavirus/21206/covid-19-patients-develop-antibodies

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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

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Long term cardiac pathology in mild Covid cases

What does the cardiac outcome look like in mild Covid cases? Well, symptoms or not, you got damage.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-02000-0?fbclid=IwAR3FBq9z3cd1jq6XTosRmdESdpyHgE6TeFuOnkf-mDqAEdl12oa5b2EKf2E

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Long Covid & micro-clots?

Some research indicates that micro-clots have a big part in forming Long Covid.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02286-7

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Blood test for Long Covid approved in Europe

Now medical staff can use a blood test to decide wether a patient has Long Covid or not. Accuracy 90%.

https://www.medscape.co.uk/viewarticle/long-covid-blood-test-receives-european-approval-2022a10022cg