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Covid gets in your blood and causes systemic issues all over your body. Remember “covid toe” early on in the pandemic? Nevertheless, the facial rehabilitation f
by wycy 4y ago
Covid gets in your blood and causes systemic issues all over your body. Remember “covid toe” early on in the pandemic? Nevertheless, the facial rehabilitation facility I went to (that now works exclusively with Bell’s palsy patients) has seen a significant uptick in cases immediately following a covid infection.
- brippalcharrid 4y agoSevere Covid can have systemic effects (as can a lot of viruses), but mild and asymptomatic cases (in which people are developing T cell immunity following proximity to a person who has been infected, without the need for antibodies) typically aren't, because the immune system is functioning properly and presenting an effective barrier to the virus at the epithelium and preventing the disease from progressing to viraemia. Our immune systems have great methods for stopping the progress of pathogens at natural entry points, but this protection is circumvented when substances are injected into people's muscles, and a varying proportion of them (depending on whether the vaccinator hits a blood vessel) then enters the bloodstream. It would be interesting to see how many of the patients at your facility had severe cases of Covid and how many had also been vaccinated; of course it's difficult to make comparisons (as I'm sure you're aware) when "Unvaccinated" status lasts until the 14th day post-injection.