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PapyrusBrigadePapyrusBrigade@cosocial.ca
Oct 20, 2026, 11:27 PM
"The team injected antibodies from the Long COVID patients into mice to see if the antibodies could cause Long COVID symptoms. They found that the test mice were more sensitive to pain if they received antibodies from Long COVID patients with chronic pain. Those mice also showed signs of nerve damage linked to chronic pain. Most of the mice that developed balance instability had received antibodies from patients with dizziness."
#LongCovid
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/immune-system-may-attack-nervous-system-some-long-covid-patients
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Rachel Rawlingslinuxandyarn@hachyderm.io
Oct 20, 2026, 11:38 PM
@PapyrusBrigade Fuck. What's this going to mean for human blood supplies and general transmissibility?
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Camille Bacon-SmithBaconSmith@universeodon.com
Oct 21, 2026, 12:08 AM
@linuxandyarn @PapyrusBrigade It seems likely that patients with Long Covid are not giving blood because they are sick.
I do wonder about people with similar symptom that are not so disabling and so they don't realize that it is a Long Covid problem.
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NilaJonesNilaJones@zeroes.ca
Oct 21, 2026, 2:06 AM
@BaconSmith @linuxandyarn @PapyrusBrigade
Yes, the problem is that by some measures 80% of the population now has long covid. And just because it's mild in one person doesn't mean it's going to be mild in another person who gets their blood
Although how you would figure out if that was the problem, or if it was hospital acquired covid, 60% chance of being asymptomatic, I don't know. (It's technically possible, if investigated quickly enough. But no one ever does)
My personal opinion is that we are going back to a time like Dickens' England, where everyone was sick all the time to some degree, worse in the lower classes, and the bar of what it meant to be a healthy person with a functioning brain and energy level was just... lower
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NilaJonesNilaJones@zeroes.ca
Oct 21, 2026, 2:08 AM
@linuxandyarn @PapyrusBrigade
If you have to have surgery or something, plan ahead, have them freeze some of your own blood and plasma. It's a thing, they can do it
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