Burden of post-Covid-19 syndrome and implications for healthcare planning

Re:Burden of post-Covid-19 syndrome and implications for hea... by felixbraun on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @03:40PM (#27825318)

You could check for T-cells at some point -- if you had Covid, they are measurable even after many months. In contrast, IgG titers show up in only ~80% and decline steadily. Excellent recent paper:

> Here, we investigated SARS-CoV-2 antibody and T cell responses in matched samples of COVID-19 convalescent individuals up to 6 months after infection. Longitudinal analysis revealed decreasing and stable spike- and nucleocapsid-specific antibody responses, respectively. In contrast, functional T cell responses remained robust, and even increased, in both frequency and intensity.

https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/13/590/eabf7517

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Re:Burden of post-Covid-19 syndrome and implications for hea... by jacquesm on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @03:45PM (#27825380)

Thank you, if there is any benefit to having that level of certainty (and not to satisfy internet naysayers) then I may still do this, but I have received my shot (Jansen) because there are still some immunological benefits from that and it helps in a regulatory sense as well (lots of doors are closed to people that have not been vaccinated).

What matters to me is that I got through it, still live pretty carefully even now because I don't want a re-run if I can avoid it and I would advise anybody that hasn't had it yet and/or has not been vaccinated to go and get that done as soon as you can. This is no walk in the park, I used to be pretty fit for my age, and the last year has been a complete wipe-out. Avoid if you can.

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Re:Burden of post-Covid-19 syndrome and implications for hea... by lamontcg on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @05:53PM (#27826744)

You might consider it if insurance puts up a fight but there's no utility in getting a T-cell test just to try to win arguments on the Internet.

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Re:Burden of post-Covid-19 syndrome and implications for hea... by jacquesm on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @01:17PM (#27835559)

Insurance? For what? I did not end up in hospital and where I live medical problems do not end up (normally) as financial problems as well.

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Re:Burden of post-Covid-19 syndrome and implications for hea... by lamontcg on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @02:58PM (#27836925)

Yeah, I assumed you might wind up getting treatment for long COVID and that you lived in the US.

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