Research published today in Lancet Infectious Disease and supported by PolyBio Research Foundation provides the strongest evidence yet that the COVID virus can persist for months or years after infection. The findings, published by a UC San Francisco/Harvard Medical School team, found that proteins created by the virus were still present for up to 14 months in a quarter of people tested. This demonstrates SARS-CoV-2 viral persistence as an urgent area of research underlying a breadth of chronic disease after COVID.
“The fact that every new SARS-CoV-2 infection has the potential to become chronic is perhaps the single most concerning aspect of this virus” says Dr. Amy Proal, President of PolyBio. “We have compelling data that viral persistence is much more common than recognized which could have major health implications.”
However, with an estimated 18 million adults and 5.8 million children suffering from Long COVID, government investment is also needed. SARS-CoV-2 has even been found in the lymph nodes of children months after COVID, suggesting persistent infection can begin early in life.
long suspected and showed up in research before, but here's more proof this is a thing.
Nearly all people in the study were not vaccinated, and generally the sicker they were the more likely they had viral persistance.
You really don't have to take a comparison like that. It would also not be true directly (at least 17 million dead due to explicit Nazi action outside of soldiers).
The killing (which is what capitalist states through their inaction and upkeep of private economies did) of people during the Covid pandemic stand on its own.
You don't have to relate to the Congo "Free State" either, even though a similar number of people might've died there on the hands of Belgian colonialist hell.
I do agree with the attack on states and their ineffective measures though and would support truth commissions.
You underestimate just how many people these regimes killed with covid. The lowest possible number is a bit over 18 million. The most likely number is somewhere closer to 30 million.
As of july, The Economist was putting excess morbidity at 24 million deaths. Despite what was commented in the post's body, The Economist was updating the numbers in the article without updating the article's date. They might still be doing it, but it's behind a paywall now.
Yeah I didn’t make that comparison lightly, I made it because the number of deaths is similar. The lower bound on covid death estimates is over 18 million, the likely number is closer to 30 million.
I'm right there with ya.
I guarantee you more than 17 million have been killed or maimed by covid so far when we already hit over a million deaths in America like, what, two years ago? Unless other countries' deaths don't count to you