We Just Got More Evidence That Long COVID Is a Brain Injury
The exact nature of long COVID is still coming to light, but we just got some of the best evidence yet that this debilitating condition stems from a brain injury.
Using high-resolution scanners, researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford have shown microscopic, structural abnormalities in the brainstems of those recovering from COVID-19.
Signs of brain inflammation were present up to 18 months after first contracting the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
"We show that the brainstem is a site of vulnerability to long-term effects of COVID-19, with persistent changes evident in the months after hospitalization," the authors of the study conclude.
https://doi.org/10.1093/brain/awae215
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Do you have a source for claiming it’d be worse without the vaccine? I haven’t seen any studies show it lessens the severity of brain damage caused by infections.
What I’ve seen is claims that even the asymptomatic infections are causing brain damage.
From what most of the vaccines seem to be is a marker (protein used for such) on am entity they want destroyed. Tells your immune system if you see guys with a red x on their shirt, start taking them out. If you don't have the vaccine they enter and no one knows the red x is bad. They start to run rampant and doing bad things until something done bad enough is recognized and they say, hey shoot the ones with the red x. In both scenarios the red X's infiltrated your body, in 1, your body is able to start defending itself sooner and it lessens the damages caused vs what may have occurred if it didn't know to start attacking sooner. (That does not mean someone's immune system couldn't be worse than someone else's and still react slower.. just faster than it would have otherwise)