Current Events > Doctors say mild Covid likely caused psychiatric illness in two teens.

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https://gizmodo.com/doctors-say-mild-covid-19-likely-triggered-psychiatric-1847929023

The virus that keeps on giving. How anyone can be against masks in school for at least 12 and up is madness.

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I wonder if we're going to see a sudden spike in multiple sclerosis diagnoses in the next few years.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

I wonder if we're going to see a sudden spike in multiple sclerosis diagnoses in the next few years.

why do you think so?

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Im surprised Gizmodo still exists.

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Arcanine2009 posted...

why do you think so?

There's a lot of little things in the article that suggests it's a possibility.

contained antibodies known to attack the nervous system.

This is, at the most abstract shortest summary possible, what causes MS.

and these interactions could then lead to a higher risk of neurological and psychiatric disorders.

MS isn't a psychiatric disorder but it is a neurological one. Depression is also common in MS patients but it's not clear how much of that is caused by the same brain lesions that cause MS versus the fact that MS just sucks.

We know that covid-19 is a potent stimulus for increased inflammatory responses, and one possible cause of these symptoms is that they are associated with this generic increase in inflammation, Pleasure explained in an email.

In the two patients where covid-19 was seen as a likely trigger, the doctors chose to treat them with immunotherapy, including steroids to tamp down inflammation.

This is also how (one of the ways) you treat MS. Inflammation is also synonymous with the lesions / scarring incurred by MS.

The second patient seemed to respond modestly to the immunotherapy, and by the six-month mark they were still improved but continued to have memory problems and trouble concentrating.

Six months also happens to be the treatment window after the S1P DMT therapy for MS (Ocrevus, for example). And the above symptoms are also seen in MS also known as "brain fog"

Anyway MS is a condition with a history of not being diagnosed correctly often bouncing patients around to different specialists for years before finally figuring out what it was, so if anyone develops MS as a result of COVID we may not know about it for years.

Just looks a little suspect. I imagine for decades to come one of the first questions you're going to get asked is "have you ever had COVID?" And if you say yes then suddenly you have to test for a whole bunch of new shit.

tl;dr invest in MRI companies.


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Seems super tenuous.

Much more well documented are the cerebral vasculature effects.

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WeeWeiWiiWie posted...

Seems super tenuous.

Much more well documented are the cerebral vasculature effects.

The neurologists referenced in the article themselves say they're not sure just that they haven't seen anything that would allow them to rule out COVID as a cause.

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