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Ask HN: As COVID can reach the brain and heart, how can this pandemic ever end?
In other words, who would want no restrictions along with the risk of brain damage and/or a heart attack?
- angelzen 5y agoPerhaps this Twitter thread (sorry) may help alleviate some of the fears? The author is a full professor working on computational biology at University College London and had prior to that had a stint working on infectious disease epidemiology at Imperial College London. https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1476507443496636423 https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/14765074434966364... "Those results provide no evidence for SARS-CoV-2 being a neurotropic virus, it doesn't inform us on long-covid. SARS-CoV-2 is not expected to be commonly found in the brain of patients except in a subset of extremely severe, often lethal, infections. 3/" https://www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/people/francois-balloux https://www.ucl.ac.uk/biosciences/people/francois-balloux
- cinntaile 5y agoI don't think it's very surprising? The flu can also reach the brain and the heart, but it rarely has severe consequences. If there was a big risk of serious consequences for the heart or the brain from covid we would have heard of it by now.
- dave4420 5y agoThat depends on what the risk of brain damage or heart disease is. Zero risk is unattainable, even ignoring covid.
- yuppie_scum 5y agoYou know what else can reach the brain and heart? Love.
- blockwriter 5y agoStress also damages the brain and can lead to heart attacks.