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Severe Covid-19 is associated with aging in the human brain

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  > Taken together, our data suggest that COVID-19-induced TNF and type I/II interferons may lead to significant deteriorating effects in the brain in the absence of SARS-CoV-2 neuroinvasion.

so.... general inflammation?

Cool now do influenza. Viruses fuck you up. That has been the case forever. SARS-CoV-2 is not all that unique.

While there’s something to this, I don’t think people are properly calibrated on how bad a new disease can be. Like, it’s totally normal and reasonable for a new disease introduced into a population to kill 80%. It’s not super common but not super uncommon either. I guess what I’m saying is that permanent, brutal sequelae not seen in diseases which have reached equilibrium with the host population would be completely within the range of expectations.

This appears to be incorrect. It isn’t known if a bad case of the flu gives you permanent brain damage.

https://www.jneurosci.org/content/38/12/3060

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