Immune exhaustion, the culprit for long COVID and chronic complications Chronic immune exhaustions underlie the development of long COVID.

In their recent News & Views article in #JLB, Shuo Geng & Liwu Li @virginiatech.bsky.social discuss evidence linking #LongCOVID to activation of #Proinflammatory and #ImmuneExhaustion pathways

A few thoughts on Zhengqi J. et al., “Persistent Attenuation of Lymphocyte Subsets After Mass SARS-CoV-2 Infection”
doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...
#PAIS #LongCOVID #Immunology #ChronicInfection #ImmuneExhaustion

It is a large study (n=40,537) from China.
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🧵 Ein paar Gedanken zu Zhengqi J. et al: „Persistent Attenuation of Lymphocyte Subsets After Mass SARS-CoV-2 Infection“
doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.ij...

#PAIS #LongCOVID #Immunology #ChronicInfection #ImmuneExhaustion

Es ist eine große Studie (n=40.537) aus China.
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Day 860. No matter how bad things are, they can always get worse.

(1st reinfection since COVID disabled me. All precautions were in place. Rapamycin induced reactivation? Asymptomatic spread? Faulty mask? No clue.)

This does ‘not’ feel like a cold. It feels like trouble. #ImmuneExhaustion