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I get what you're saying. Without more context that this finding is one piece of a bigger puzzle, you can look forward to your Aunt Crazytown confidently informing you at next Thanksgiving dinner that you can't breath well because you have a brain injury. It's 50% a lack of journalistic probing, and 50% all the lead paint the Boomers ate growing up.
That’s exactly it, long COVID is multiple problems in many damaged tissues. We’ve found a new damaged location, it doesn’t diminish the impact of everywhere else though like this article headline claims.
But that's not how research works.. research papers will often assess one very specific area.. there's no point in talking about all of the other ailments that are possible with Covid, because the research paper was exploring brain injury biomarkers ?
Eh, he's not commenting on the research though. He's commenting on the article. The headline says "Long COVID seems to be brain injury...", but we know that can't be the whole story. If the journalist were doing a better job, it should have said "Long COVID likely involves a brain injury...". They might have even asked the researchers how the brain injury theory could account for diminished lung capacity - but they didn't.
Right, viruses and the local immune response can damage healthy tissue.
Isn't this just the result of COVID? In other words, can we stop calling it long COVID and just explain to people how their immune system works, and that it's just the result of having contracted a very serious virus?
Can't these symptoms happen identically with just about any virus?
I think COVID is special in that it can infect cells in all organs of the body. I believe other viruses can cause long-term or permanent damage but they tend to be more limited in the scope of what organs they can affect. Plus, any viruses that don't affect the respiratory, digestive, or reproductive systems are a lot harder to transmit, so there's fewer cases overall.
Also, respiratory viruses are a bit special in how much of an initial dose one can be exposed to (unless you're eating the ass of someone who is shedding a digestive system virus or receive a blood transfusion laden with some bloodborne virus, you're not likely to get a similar exposure to sitting in a room with an infected person shedding virus particles with each breath).
But this is just my own speculation based on what I've seen and read. It's interesting seeing more and more studies coming out.
The lead is in the air and the water too, it’s poisoning everyone.