• TheModerateTankie [any]@hexbear.net
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    7 days ago

    The problem is that covid can infect places that are hard for our immune systems to clear, like the gut, and there are theories that a lot of long covid cases come from persistent infections, The frequency of reinfections doesn’t help, either. China, I believe, has started treated people with drugs used to treat HIV for this reason. In the rules based international community international-community-1international-community-2 we want to pretends it’s over and isn’t severe anymore and are leaving people with long covid to fend for themselves.

    A lot of the new variants that show up are believed to derive from long term infections, particularly people with suppressed immune systems, where the virus can spend months mutating.