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We Just Got More Evidence That Long COVID Is a Brain Injury (sciencealert.com)

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[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 hours ago

wow, thank you so much for the detailed answer, I'm fascinated chronic fatigue syndrome turned out to be a neuroimmune disorder.

is ME genetic or do you just get unlucky as far as we know so far?

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 5 points 3 hours ago

Seems like it generally just gets triggered by a viral infection, but obviously it's hard to find conclusive evidence for that as people get viral infections all the time and usually recover fine. In a way COVID was a useful 'experiment' where we got a lot of cases of people getting long COVID right after a confirmed infection (because everyone was getting tested, which you typically wouldn't do for your average viral infection).

[-] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

triggered or caused by?

fascinating, thank you.

that makes sense, we must have so much new data on how viruses affects humanity as a whole because of the global testing going on so long for so many people.