I know this thread may well be closed.
It's becoming more and more evident that Covid is not just about the lungs.
Patients with "only" moderate symptoms might well be left with permanent damage, even neurological.
Tell me this isn't the case and Italy is an aberration?
[Mod] please post in the main Coronavirus thread. This one is therefore being closed. Thanks.
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OP 8m afraid i dont know. I was reading on BBC website that what you are saying seems to be true. I fear we are due a lot more problems from this virus yet. There is some indication that immunity is only short lived. Sadly i suspect the new normal may be very different to what we enjoyed last year.
Not quite sure what the first reply to your post was about....
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There is some indication that immunity is only short lived
Before we start panicking there is still lots of unknowns.
The very small study found a decrease in antibodies in the body after infection. Theres nothing to prove that we don't have the ability to reproduce the antibodies later on.
This isn’t the case and Italy is an aberration.
Happy now?
I have a work colleague who starts talking about things without sharing fully what he is talking about. You can kind of get the gist but if he gave everyone a copy of the document he was looking at thing would be much easier.
Theres nothing to prove that we don’t have the ability to reproduce the antibodies later on.
Yet many many people having antibody tests are coming back negative when all the symptoms had been there.
Anyhow what does it matter. Large portions of the population believe they are immune to the virus, so let’s just crack on anyhow
Send hols2 over to have a look?
It's been talked about on news feeds I follow for a few weeks now, including the BBC, so I'm not sure quite what the thread title is referring to, but surely this is just a continuation of the main Corona virus thread?
There is some indication that immunity is only short lived.
What I take away from this is that it's really complicated.
I think the only reliable evidence of fading immunity is evidence of re-infection long after the initial infection. As far as I know that hasn't happened yet.
I've seen quite a bit of stuff in the mainstream UK media about long term health issues. Who's ignoring it?
The very small study found a decrease in antibodies in the body after infection
That is normal. The body doesn't make antibodies all the time to non-self antigens. We have memory cells that get activated if we get infected with the same thing before. If the body doesn't go down this route (doesn't always happen) then the response to infection takes longer.
SARS-CoV-2 can cause significant damage to the lungs because of the immune response.
I'm sure the Italians are just lacking in good ol' British common sense
I have a work colleague who starts talking about things without sharing fully what he is talking about.
The father in law has been like this for the 30 years I've know my wife!
OP, journal references or URLs please. Bad form to through out statements like that without backing it up. As a discussion piece I think it’s valid.
We'll be build build building oven-ready red white and blue brain damage when we plucky brits beat adolf and Get Corona Done
We’ll be build build building oven-ready red white and blue brain damage when we plucky brits beat adolf and Get Corona Done
Please report to the Gin thread.
Covid was so 1st half 2020, we've moved on to no deal Brexit now.