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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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    This should go both ways. What about :-

    • Wuhan Lab leak possibility

    • US sponsoring foreign GoF research

    • Assange assassination plans

    • Phones and tvs listening on conversations (Weeping Angel)

    • NSA recording all internet traffic

    • Remote car jacking

    • McDonald’s ice cream breaking on purpose

    Etc.

    • rumba@lemmy.zip
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      17 hours ago

      This should go both ways. What about

      The only one of those that was seriously surprising was Prism. We didn’t expect the tech to be able to exist yet. It was one of those “if you put enough money into it you can do it” buckets.

      OP’s examples are literally impossible.

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          Definition: a theory that explains an event or set of circumstances as the result of a secret plot by usually powerful conspirators

          also : a theory asserting that a secret of great importance is being kept from the public

          Those aren’t all conspiracy theories. Those aren’t all even true

          The Wuhan findings led by a Republican Inquisition team with an agenda and is hotly contested.

          Remote car hacking was never a conspiracy theory. It’s a vulnerability, it’s not there on purpose or put there by a super secret plot. It wouldn’t even make sense as a conspiracy theory.

          McDonald’s doesn’t break their ice cream machines on purpose. J.M. Taylor just refused to give them access to reset system errors related to real problems and operation.

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      20 hours ago

      Ofc it goes both ways. To them, everything you listed is basically truth. Something so obvious everybody knows (ok maybe not the ice cream machine). They need a bigger conspiracy. Something most people would never believe.