COVID-19 (Coronavirus) discussion
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Thankfully don't have LC yet. But am I never going to get COVID again? Probably not.
Covid these days is more a chronic condition.
If you get infected it will attack and damage your immune system. It uses the ACE2 receptor in the immune system to travel around.
If your immune system is healthy it can shake it off, though you'll still have been damaged.
Eventually your immune system will be already damaged and covid will start damaging parts of the body.
As far as I know there is no vaccine for the current dominant variant KP.2 . The group of variants collectively known as FLiRT have escaped the vaccines.
When I got ill with covid I'd had vaccines, and had it twice before. On the third time I got the BQ.1.1 variant, which at the time evaded the then vaccines and antivirals, though I was given Paxlovid at the hospital.
The good news is researchers can see which proteins it's altering. So they are looking at the best way to turn them back to normal function.
If you get infected it will attack and damage your immune system. It uses the ACE2 receptor in the immune system to travel around.
If your immune system is healthy it can shake it off, though you'll still have been damaged.
Eventually your immune system will be already damaged and covid will start damaging parts of the body.
As far as I know there is no vaccine for the current dominant variant KP.2 . The group of variants collectively known as FLiRT have escaped the vaccines.
When I got ill with covid I'd had vaccines, and had it twice before. On the third time I got the BQ.1.1 variant, which at the time evaded the then vaccines and antivirals, though I was given Paxlovid at the hospital.
The good news is researchers can see which proteins it's altering. So they are looking at the best way to turn them back to normal function.
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