Coronavirus Thread: Worldwide Pandemic

[Orbital-Fetus]

Well brehs...my mom dodged Covid for 2.5 years only to catch a super rare cancer that metastasized all over the place before they found it, and she's got maybe 6-12 months. There's essentially nothing to do. It could be a little more or less time. She never smoke or drank, and she ate pretty well. No history of cancer in our family. I'm soul crushed. I didn't know where else to post this here that made sense. But I love a lot of you, and I wanted to share, if for no other reason than I need some love. I'm going through it really hard out here.

that really sucks, breh. i'm sorry to hear that.

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

I got COVID this week. Spread through my whole damn family (including in-laws) and we are vaxxed/boosted and had Omicron in February.

We think we got it on a plane. Make sure you N95 up on these planes. This new BA.5 variant evades vaccine and Omicron 1.0 immunity. Even the doc was shocked we got it again so soon.

wifey and i are thankfully still covid free.

 

[greenvale]

Anecdotal but more and more people I know that got it in late december are getting it again now

 

[DJ Paul's Arm]

So how dem antibodies work? You immune after you catch it?

 

[greenvale]

So how dem antibodies work? You immune after you catch it?

The virus keeps mutating, we just stopped reporting on all the variants. Still not as severe as others it seems but I did read something that implied repeat infections does weaken your immune system. Trying to find the article

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Well brehs...my mom dodged Covid for 2.5 years only to catch a super rare cancer that metastasized all over the place before they found it, and she's got maybe 6-12 months. There's essentially nothing to do. It could be a little more or less time. She never smoke or drank, and she ate pretty well. No history of cancer in our family. I'm soul crushed. I didn't know where else to post this here that made sense. But I love a lot of you, and I wanted to share, if for no other reason than I need some love. I'm going through it really hard out here.

sorry to hear that...make the most out of the time yall have left together

 

[greenvale]

The virus keeps mutating, we just stopped reporting on all the variants. Still not as severe as others it seems but I did read something that implied repeat infections does weaken your immune system. Trying to find the article

Government has ‘really dropped the ball’ on Covid, says virologist Here’s the article

 

[jj23]

Well brehs...my mom dodged Covid for 2.5 years only to catch a super rare cancer that metastasized all over the place before they found it, and she's got maybe 6-12 months. There's essentially nothing to do. It could be a little more or less time. She never smoke or drank, and she ate pretty well. No history of cancer in our family. I'm soul crushed. I didn't know where else to post this here that made sense. But I love a lot of you, and I wanted to share, if for no other reason than I need some love. I'm going through it really hard out here.

Thoughts with you and your family during this time breh. Try to stay strong.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

As BA.5 becomes dominant among new U.S. cases, reduced state reporting is blurring the real-time look at the virus.

As states report less frequently, changes in the trajectory of the virus are slower to reveal themselves.

www.nytimes.com

 

[the next guy]

This isn't over by a long shot.

 

[barese]

So how dem antibodies work? You immune after you catch it?

Omicron escapes antibodies unfortunately.

Each reinfection seems slightly more serious then the previous infection, so we can forget long term immunity:

Article by Topol:

A reinfection red flag

Why a new report is so troubling

erictopol.substack.com

The study preprint that analyzed VA database:

Outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection

First infection with SARS-CoV-2 is associated with increased risk of acute and post-acute death and sequelae in the pulmonary and extrapulmonary organ systems. However, whether reinfection adds to the risk incurred after the first infection is not clear. Here we use the national health care da...

www.researchsquare.com

 

[Poetical Poltergeist]

Omicron escapes antibodies unfortunately.

Each reinfection seems slightly more serious then the previous infection, so we can forget long term immunity:

Article by Topol:

A reinfection red flag

Why a new report is so troubling

erictopol.substack.com

The study preprint that analyzed VA database:

Outcomes of SARS-CoV-2 Reinfection

First infection with SARS-CoV-2 is associated with increased risk of acute and post-acute death and sequelae in the pulmonary and extrapulmonary organ systems. However, whether reinfection adds to the risk incurred after the first infection is not clear. Here we use the national health care da...

www.researchsquare.com

Thats just great. But no one gives a fukk anymore so its get infected and hopefully not get too sick from it.

 

[barese]

Government has ‘really dropped the ball’ on Covid, says virologist Here’s the article

Good article.



Previously I've posted here some additional articles on covid weakening the immune system (also the explanation why children do better with covid than adults - they have more naive T cells):

SARS2 just spreads as a respiratory virus, but in the body it is a vascular virus attacking every organ with veins (i.e. literally every organ), therefore taking a much greater toll on immune system than more localized diseases.

T Cells: Warriors of SARS-CoV-2 Infection - PubMed

Immunological dysfunction persists for 8 months following initial mild-to-moderate SARS-CoV-2 infection | Nature Immunology


SARS2 is differentiating our naive T cells to fight the virus at a great rate.
This is good for the next infection, but if we get infected every few months with no mitigation because it's "mild", in 10 years we might end up with an old immune system, incapable of fighting new diseases (in this way SARS2 has some similarities with HIV, although it is not directly killing T cells like HIV).
Similarities with HIV:
A single-cell atlas reveals shared and distinct immune responses and metabolism during SARS-CoV-2 and HIV-1 infections


Children are ok now, but in case of unmitigated continuous spread of variants they might end up with naive T cells depleted in their 20s.

(Now, after the above article on reinfections even the idea of memory T cells protecting against reinfection seems under question...)

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

Updated Covid Shots Are Coming. Will They Be Too Late?

The government has greenlit new vaccines to defend against the latest Omicron variants. But the shots won’t arrive until the fall, and cases are rising now.

www.nytimes.com

shyt is going to get real again.

 

[barese]

Long COVID Could Be a ‘Mass Deterioration Event’

A tidal wave of chronic illness could leave millions of people incrementally worse off.

www.theatlantic.com

Not disabling millions too much, but "Mass deterioration event"...