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interesting tidbit which to me, a layman, sounds like the myocarditis is the immune system's doing : "For all but 3 patients, the second dose of vaccine preced
by trhway 5y ago
interesting tidbit which to me, a layman, sounds like the myocarditis is the immune system's doing :
"For all but 3 patients, the second dose of vaccine
preceded their myocarditis presentations. Among the 3 patients presenting after an initial vaccine dose, all had confirmed COVID-19 infection more than 2 months prior to vaccination."
That naturally leads to a speculation - the long lasting post-covid myocarditis as a side-effect/manifestation of the acquired immunity (instead of say the direct viral damage during the actual illness period). Similar to when chronic fatigue syndrome was associated with something like post-flu increase of B-cells hanging around for months and was successfully treated with immunosuppressants ( https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/are-b-cells-to-blame-for-chronic-fatigue-syndrome https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/are-b-cells-to-blame... )
It is kind of fascinating to me from a generic systems POV that a lot of damage is kind of "self-inflicted", like the most deaths in the Spanish flu, especially in the 2nd wave, resulted from the immune system [over]reaction (and thus killed a lot of otherwise healthy adult individuals, not just the "weak"/children/elderly who would typically be the direct virus victims), not the virus itself. To me it parallels for example another large complex system - society - which similarly self-inflicts a lot of damage in order to fight societal ills.