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PoindexterOglethorpe

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1. That's scary.

Reply to appalachiablue (Original post)

Fri Jun 3, 2022, 01:34 AM

Jun 2022

But I wonder why. What exactly causes long covid, or what is different about those who get it from those who don't?

It seems to me that the essential thing we should be learning is how various, or perhaps idiosyncratic are individual responses to this disease. Which does not to be quite the same as responses to flu, or the common cold. Why?

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Vaccines Reduce Risk of Long Covid by Just 15 Percent, Study Finds [View all] appalachiablue Jun 2022 OP

That's scary. PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2022 #1

Right, scary & are there individual differences. I also hope appalachiablue Jun 2022 #2

The vagaries of individual immune systems do not seem PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2022 #3

Yup. Vaccinated friend got covid and still can't taste anything 1 month later. SunSeeker Jun 2022 #4

keep masking Skittles Jun 2022 #5