lowenz on 20/1/2022 at 00:00

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Clopidrogel is a *platelet agglutination inhibitor* (for the sake of precision).
Not so important when the clots are in the *veins*

Apixaban is the perfect choice but it costs really much.
And you know, Hemorrhages.

So don't take it.

Starker on 20/1/2022 at 00:40

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There's a another preprint study that suggests Omicron is not inherently more transmissible. They looked at viral shedding and found no significant difference between Omicron and Delta.



If anyone's interested, TWiV recently discussed both this paper and the (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.27.21268278v1) Danish paper that found Omicron didn't spread any better among unvaccinated people compared to Delta (from 16:23 to around 1:43:00):

[video=youtube;b1u4yCAoAZI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1u4yCAoAZI[/video]

Link to timestamp where the discussion of the papers begins: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1u4yCAoAZI&t=983s)

faetal on 21/1/2022 at 09:12

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Which perk did you choose with yours? I got one where if I don't have any zoom meetings during the day, I automatically go into overwatch during dinner.

Azaran on 21/1/2022 at 19:43

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A few Delta Omicron anagrams, for all the conspiracy nuts

Contrail Dome
A Nordic Motel
Maced Loin Rot
Erotic Almond
Erotic Old Man
Menial Doctor
Retail Condom
Denim locator
Moronic Delta
Dialect Moron
Dance Limo Rot
Cilantro Mode
Rectal Domino
Democrat Loin
Clarinet Doom

lowenz on 24/1/2022 at 10:07

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"They've burying the truth!!!11"

No :) (https://www.science.org/content/article/rare-cases-coronavirus-vaccines-may-cause-long-covid-symptoms)

Early clinical data point in a similar direction. Over the past year, research groups have detected unusually high levels of autoantibodies, which can attack the body's own cells and tissues, in people after a SARS-CoV-2 infection. In Nature in May 2021, immunologists Aaron Ring and Akiko Iwasaki at Yale School of Medicine and their colleagues reported finding autoantibodies in acute COVID-19 patients that target the immune system and brain; they are now investigating how long the autoantibodies persist and whether they can damage tissues. This month, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center cardiologist Susan Cheng and protein chemist Justyna Fert-Bober wrote in the Journal of Translational Medicine that autoantibodies could last up to 6 months after infection, although the researchers did not correlate autoantibodies' persistence with ongoing symptoms.

In part to understand whether these autoantibodies harm people, DZNE is checking the cerebrospinal fluid of Long Covid patients for antibodies that react to mouse brain tissue—if they do react, they might attack human neural tissues as well. In a paper Prüss and his colleagues are about to submit, they describe finding autoantibodies that attack mouse neurons and other brain cells in at least one-third of those patients. A group at Northwestern University, meanwhile, reported in an August 2021 preprint that in people with neurological complications after COVID-19, a subset of T cells is persistently activated as would happen with an ongoing SARS-CoV-2 infection, suggesting some sort of aberrant immune response or lingering virus.

Some researchers are looking at another possible culprit for Long Covid: tiny clots in the blood. In an acute SARS-CoV-2 infection, small clots can form that can damage cells that line blood vessels. Resia Pretorius, a physiologist at Stellenbosch University in South Africa, and her colleagues published preliminary evidence in August in Cardiovascular Diabetology that microscopic clots can linger after an infection clears. They might interfere with oxygen delivery, which could explain some Long Covid symptoms such as brain fog. Pretorius is now teaming up with colleagues to develop diagnostics for this microclotting and study ways to treat it in Long Covid.

Pretorius says she and her colleagues have also seen patients—fewer than 20, she estimates—with chronic problems following vaccination. She says these include Long Covid-like symptoms such as brain fog as well as other clotting concerns such as deep vein thrombosis. The cause of the very rare but severe clotting after the AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson vaccines remains unknown, but Pretorius suspects all COVID-19 vaccines might also sometimes trigger subtler clotting issues. She says she has preliminary evidence that vaccination can lead to microclots, although in most cases they go unnoticed and quickly disappear—an effect she and a colleague saw in their own blood and that of eight other healthy volunteers, which they sampled after their vaccinations.