<div dir="auto">So Ruben, why don't you believe it? <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Elise Scher</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 5, 2020, 10:16 PM Ruben Safir <<a href="mailto:ruben@mrbrklyn.com">ruben@mrbrklyn.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Wed, Aug 05, 2020 at 09:42:28PM -0700, Deirdre Saoirse Moen wrote:<br>
> Note: I saved the article with the good joke for last. :P<br>
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> Optimum time to get a nasal swab test (not the at home type, which is less accurate):<br>
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> tl;dr: 2-4 days after first symptoms, see figure 2<br>
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> <a href="https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1495" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1495</a><br>
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> Truly depressing subject: structural brain changes in covid patients. Very technical neuroscience.<br>
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> <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30228-5/fulltext" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30228-5/fulltext</a><br>
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Don't believe it.<br>
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> Study findings revealed possible disruption to micro-structural and functional brain integrity in the recovery stages of COVID-19, suggesting the long-term consequences of SARS-CoV-2. (In *most* of the people.)<br>
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> For the truly horrifying one-off, though:<br>
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> <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160770v1" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160770v1</a><br>
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> Autoimmune Encephalitis Presenting with Acute Excited Catatonia in a 40-Year-Old Male Patient with Covid-19<br>
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> > We are not aware of other types of encephalitis with such distinct pyramidal tract symptoms and raise the possibility that this may be a novel form of autoimmune encephalitis induced by infection with SARS-CoV-2.<br>
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> (pyramidal tract being motor control systems, encephalitis is inflammation of at least part of the brain; in this case, several parts were involved)<br>
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> And, for the lightest piece, the Atlantic piece, which opens with a funny cardiologist vs. immunologist joke:<br>
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> <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/covid-19-immunity-is-the-pandemics-central-mystery/614956/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/08/covid-19-immunity-is-the-pandemics-central-mystery/614956/</a><br>
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> I had noticed this in papers and wondered if I’d missed something, so glad to know I didn’t:<br>
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> > Normally, the immune system mobilizes different groups of cells and molecules when fighting three broad groups of pathogens: viruses and microbes that invade cells, bacteria and fungi that stay outside cells, and parasitic worms. Only the first of these programs should activate during a viral infection. But Iwasaki’s team recently showed that all three activate in severe COVID-19 cases. “It seems completely random,” she says. In the worst cases, “the immune system almost seems confused as to what it’s supposed to be making.”<br>
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> Also, it links to a piece about the long haulers, of which I am one. Still symptomatic after 6-1/2 months. :(<br>
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> <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/covid-19-coronavirus-longterm-symptoms-months/612679/" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/06/covid-19-coronavirus-longterm-symptoms-months/612679/</a><br>
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> Wound up in the ER 2-1/2 weeks ago with a high heart rate and put on a heart monitor. :O Ever since covid, I’ve had an occasional random high heart rate. Waiting to hear back what the results are and so forth. But…yeah, this disease sucks.<br>
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> Deirdre<br>
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