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Re:"Debilitating a Generation": Long Covid May Eventually Af... by randm_sequence on Saturday June 15, 2024 @06:35AM (#40688835)
These 'long' illnesses are simply persistent infections where the virus in question has evaded the immune system and taken up residence in one or more tissues. Clear the virus and the individual recovers.
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Re:"Debilitating a Generation": Long Covid May Eventually Af... by bryanlarsen on Saturday June 15, 2024 @07:46AM (#40689160)
Only sometimes is this true.
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Re:"Debilitating a Generation": Long Covid May Eventually Af... by randm_sequence on Saturday June 15, 2024 @09:25PM (#40693985)
As our diagnostic capabilities grow beyond their current primitive state, we will discover that the vast majority of these cases are persistent infections either directly or indirectly causing symptoms.
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Re:"Debilitating a Generation": Long Covid May Eventually Af... by bryanlarsen on Saturday June 15, 2024 @11:10PM (#40694406)
So confident that a significant fraction aren't auto-immune, aren't psycho somatic, aren't injury?
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