Sars Cov 2 … the grinder continues to eat away at resources and humanity.

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Alien Cells May Explain COVID 'Brain Fog'

The long-term neurologic symptoms such as "brain fog" experienced by some patients with COVID-19 may be caused by a unique pathology — the occlusion of brain capillaries by large megakaryocyte cells, a new report suggests.

The authors report five separate post-mortem cases from patients who died with COVID-19 in which large cells resembling megakaryocytes were identified in cortical capillaries. Immunohistochemistry subsequently confirmed their megakaryocyte identity.

They point out that the finding is of interest as — to their knowledge — megakaryocytes have not been found in the brain before.

The observations are described in a research letter published online February 12 in JAMA Neurology.
Bone Marrow Cells in the Brain

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Assessing Brain Capillaries in Coronavirus Disease 2019

Evidence suggests brain involvement in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Manifestations in acutely ill individuals often include confusion and alteration of consciousness. After this phase, many patients experience continued neurologic symptoms such as dysexecutive syndrome1 or “brain fog.”2 However, in autopsies from patients with COVID-19 who had neurologic abnormalities (reviewed in the study by Mukerji and Solomon3), investigations have largely not identified the chronic inflammation or marked neural changes typically associated with viral infection, and viral genetic material has been minimal or absent. It has been difficult to reconcile the experience of patients and clinicians that COVID-19 is altering cognition with tissue studies that show no evidence of encephalitis involving higher brain centers. We hypothesized that histopathology might provide insight. We report here a finding that may contribute in some cases, identified by analysis of brain tissue from patients who died of COVID-19.

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Hope all is well on the home front.

:prayers: for all of Texas..... that’s just a huge fucking mold disaster waiting to happen.

I really wish folks (in general) understood that PCR testing does NOT catch all sars cov 2 infections. And that not all infections are respiratory in nature....



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Some countries aren't allowing PCR tests to count as negative tests when traveling to them, like Canada.

Well Double Welcome!

I hope it helps R1 and many others....

Oh that was probably my fault.... I must have sent godlike only. Please forgive me.

Kidney stone? I have experienced one of those. The pain started at home, drove myself to urgent care. Bad decision, waves of pain washed over me, thought I was going to faint driving. Luckily, once they checked me in, I passed a small piece of it and miraculously the pain minimized dramatically. Now I drink as much water as I can and have Norco medication in case it comes back.

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Some countries aren't allowing PCR tests to count as negative tests when traveling to them, like Canada.