Post polio, for example, usually only affects people who had a pretty severe case to begin with.
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En réponse à @adambravomusic @ChrisWarcraft et
Generally speaking, the “long COVID” symptoms we see now are much like the ones we see after other viral pneumonias (of course they’re way more common with COVID). Fatigue, brain fog, etc. Even myocarditis.
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En réponse à @adambravomusic @ChrisWarcraft et
Any specialists out there feel free to correct me, but as far as I know, that’s where we stand now. It’s not a completely alien disease with no precedent.
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Except for all the doctors and epidemiologists out there shouting from the rafters “hey you REALLY don’t want to risk getting this thing”
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Yeah, if you start with "I'm not a virologist" and then spend four tweets on virology, I'm gonna pass and continue listening to my co-workers at Hopkins.
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I will bet you real money none of your coworkers in the field are worried about waves of COVID-induced strokes decades ahead.
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Two people I know working in different areas of the medical field (one an ER doc, one a researcher) have expressed concerns about these possibilities. "We don't know what the fuck this damage is going to do to people long term." That's why I am worried.
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That’s a very reasonable question if there’s a patient in front of you who’s sustaining damage now. Major complications in decades from an asymptomatic infection is very different animal.
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En réponse à @adambravomusic @regularguy et
I did lead with “anything is possible,” because, strictly speaking, we won’t know for sure until 30 years down the line. But why would you worry about thing that, to our knowledge, hasn’t happened before in the history of humanity?
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En réponse à @adambravomusic @regularguy et
We’re infected by new pathogens every year, new flu strains being the most obvious example. They’re usually not serious like COVID, thankfully. But you could just as easily ask these questions about any of those, if we’re taking severity of initial disease off the table.
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Because those other pathogens haven’t been causing adverse effects in multiple different parts of the body at such a high rate, and it’s becoming evident that covid’s replication in blood cells is having some serious long term affects different than other respiratory viruses.
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En réponse à @ChrisWarcraft @adambravomusic et
That’s why we’re not comparing it to other flu-like pathogens, because it’s *different* from other flu-like pathogens, and this is a really fucking weird hill to make a stand on.
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Oh no I said the magic word - flu. I wish I hadn’t. OK then forget flu entirely. What other disease regularly gives us a mild course, then nothing for decades, then a terrible complication? Chickenpox is the only one, really. Exceedingly rarely in polio.
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