Physical phenotype of blood cells is altered in Covid-19

Re:Physical phenotype of blood cells is altered in Covid-19 by tudorw on Friday July 09, 2021 @05:53AM (#27782069)

I'm a layperson, on a read through this appears to have content that would a) enable a new testing method for covid that could offer higher throughput than PCR and b) describe functional changes brought about by covid that persist for 120 days beyond the infection that could be implicated in cases of long covid.

"Since mature erythrocytes cannot synthesize new proteins to replace damaged ones and the average lifespan of erythrocytes is 120 days, the authors hypothesize that the circulation of irreversibly damaged erythrocytes with impaired function could contribute to the long-term effects of COVID-19 (25)"

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Re:Physical phenotype of blood cells is altered in Covid-19 by dfawcus on Friday July 09, 2021 @10:38AM (#27784117)

Also a layman, but I've a vague recall of reports of how a 4-5 day fast can trigger autophagy, followed by new cell generation once re-fed.

So could that end up as a useful treatment? Or would it only help with the WBC, and not the RBC?

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