Re:'Long Covid': Why are some people not recovering?
by oceanplexian on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @10:53AM
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The virus shouldn't have been labeled 'novel' in the first place. In a 2020 study by La Jolla Institute for Immunology, they found blood samples pre-2018 that demonstrated a T-Cell immune response to Covid-19. It was found that in SARS-CoV-2 and “common cold” coronavirus fragments that were similar (at least 67% genetic similarity) 57% showed cross-reactivity by memory T cells. If the Covid-19 coronavirus is novel, then we should be designating every new strain of the flu as a novel virus.
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Re:'Long Covid': Why are some people not recovering?
by SomeoneFromCA on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @03:47PM
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This is a very weird distortion of terminology. I get it, you hate anti-covid measures (I read your other posts), but most of the "common old" coronaviruses are wildly different from the SARS-2 virus, 67% of genetic difference represent hundreds of years of evolution; the only "similarity" they have is belonging to the same family of coronaviruses. It is like saying, yeah we share 99% of genes with monkeys therefore we are the same thing.
Re:'Long Covid': Why are some people not recovering?
by juliushuijnk on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @11:09AM
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If you have many hours to spare, you can watch George Hotz dive into the details. One of the take-aways is that the Corona virus is a Sars, not a flu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vWaawiUteM
If your take is that Sars is just another flu, then I guess you just broadened the scope of the flu, and need to be open for the idea that the 'flu' could be more dangerous than you thought.
Re:'Long Covid': Why are some people not recovering?
by notahacker on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @11:11AM
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Fragments that were 67% similar really doesn't sound very similar when we're talking about DNA, considering us slower evolving mammals share a larger percentage of DNA with our pets, and by your own stat 43% of people's T-cells are not primed to respond at all...
We do designate strains of influenza transmitted from animals (and indeed other coronaviruses transmitted from animals) as novel threats.
Re:'Long Covid': Why are some people not recovering?
by oceanplexian on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @11:22AM
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The human genome contains 3 billion nucleotides, SARS-COV-2 contains about 29,000. If it shares ~60% of its genome with common coronaviruses that's quite substantial.