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Correct. Most of the “long Covid” effects appear to be more related to immune dysregulation as a response to the virus, causing the so-called cytokine storm and
by hanklazard 6y ago
Correct. Most of the “long Covid” effects appear to be more related to immune dysregulation as a response to the virus, causing the so-called cytokine storm and leading to damage in the lungs, heart, vasculature, etc. (Lots of support to this, I’ll look for a good review and update this post with an edit.)
Edit: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.27.20115238v7 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.27.20115238v...
Check out Figure 1 and the Discussion section for a good overview.
- s1artibartfast 6y agoI think that everything you said regarding the "Long Covid" is correct, but I don't think that it necessarily follows that patients dying of covid ARDS have ended viral replication and are no longer contagious.