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We Just Got More Evidence That Long COVID Is a Brain Injury (sciencealert.com)

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ooo interesting. The parallels with CFS are fascinating.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

What’s CFS?

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 day ago (25 children)

I wasn't even aware of that. chronic fatigue syndrome was actually real.

I thought I was just like side- depression.

is there anything known about CFS?

what causes it or how long it lasts or anything?

I know nothing about it except for like a comedy sketch from the 2000s at some point.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

We all get tired

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

some of us syndromically

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It's the line from the sketch (it's the only one I know of from the early 2000s about it). Jesus is healing people of various ailments and someone says they have ME and he responds "well, we all get tired".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago

oh ahhah, it rang a bell but I couldn't remember

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[+] [email protected] -12 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Using high-resolution scanners, researchers at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford have shown microscopic, structural abnormalities in the brainstems of those recovering from COVID-19.

Signs of brain inflammation were present up to 18 months after first contracting the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

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In living brains of those with long COVID, however, conventional MRI studies have shown no structural abnormalities in the brainstem.

Do these people not proof-read their own articles?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Dude read the rest of the article

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I have to choose what to spend my time on. If an article contradicts itself that obviously after I spent 2-5 minutes reading, I'll go look for more intelligent texts.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The abnormalities are only visible with a 7T scanner, and not conventional MRIs.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

yes, I can guess that explanation when trying to figure out the seeming contradiction. I don't read scientific articles to end up guessing because the author can't string together a well structured text. :)

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