“We fundamentally do not know the extent of the long-term damage continual reinfection with #COVID19 will cause to children, and the data we have so far are upsetting. What are we willing to risk? Are we OK with more children contracting diabetes? Are we OK with many more children developing highly disabling orthostatic intolerance? How about chronic fatigue, cognitive impairment, sleep disorders and heart problems?”
@augieray Is there really evidence that COVID19 is worse than other perils in life, provided we use normal things like getting boosters, avoiding exposure to others when you're running a fever, coughing into your elbow, washing your hands, etc?
We can't know for sure if it's much worse than it seems. We don't 100% that there isn't some very unlikely hidden risk to the vaccine. We know telling kids to hunker down and avoid interacting isn't good for them.
@cgervasi@augieray "Other perils in life" is conveniently vague, but yes, there's a good deal of evidence that COVID-19 is linked to consequences like stroke, heart attack, and diabetes. The person you're replying to keeps a running list of some of the evidence and last shared it yesterday:
Oh, yes. I've been tracking media coverage of scientific study into the long-term consequences of COVID infection, and it's honestly hair-stand-on-end alarming - but most people aren't paying any attention to that coverage, and, frankly are putting their heads in the sand.
I did a big round up report of research very specifically into one subtype of long-term COVID effect: what COVID had been found to do to the immune system. Just that one thing - nothing about brain damage, nothing about cardiovascular consequences, just the immune system.
It looks like having COVID can increase your risk of future illness in three separate ways: causing autoimmunity (where your immune system gets confused and starts attacking your own tissues), decreased immune response to infectious agents (where your immune system fails to recognize and fight off other viruses, bacteria, fungi, etc), and directly attacking and damaging parts of the body that lead to malfunction, e.g. diabetes, POTS.
Additionally, there is some evidence that active COVID infection can hide in the body and persist much longer than either PCR or antigen test reveal.
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