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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want to know why everyone is getting so sick so often these past few months, this is why. Even mild cases of Covid cause immune system damage that shares some similarities to HIV (in that it destroys T cells) and may be permanent. Repeat infections increase the damage. People think because they feel fine after they recover, that Covid is nothing. But people felt fine after they were infected with HIV too, often for a couple of years. The damage is cumulative and takes some time to emerge. https://nationalpost.com/health/is-covid-prematurely-aging-our-immune-systems[/quote]

This is so wrong. 1) There's no evidence that Covid lingers in the body and continues to damage T cells the way that HIV does.  2) You produce T cells all the time. We have very effective antiviral drugs to prevent HIV from destroying T cells, and HIV patients who take their meds have absolutely normal t cell counts.  HIV doesn't cause permanent destructive of T cells. Neither does Covid.

More concerning is whether Covid is wiping immune memory through destruction of B cells, the way measles does.  You can also get that back but it's going to be a long process while you catch everything you ever caught as a kid. [/quote]

Interesting[/quote]

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