JADe (he, him)<p>Today is international <a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/LongCovid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LongCovid</span></a> Awareness Day </p><p>Check this canadian interview with a Mount Sinai (NY) chronic disease specialist. Up to one in five people with COVID-19 develop LONG COVID, meaning three months after having the disease they still do not recover their full abilities. </p><p>The specialist affirms that each reinfection, even moderate, of COVID-19 subtracts between 2-6% of IQ. </p><p>LONG COVID is a disease that causes systemic damage, especially to the immune system, causing T-cell exhaustion and triggering latent diseases or exposing the body to new pathogens from which it would have been able to defend itself before. Worth a listen:</p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/audio/9.6685208" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cbc.ca/player/play/audio/9.668</span><span class="invisible">5208</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/CovidLong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidLong</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/COVID19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVID19</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/CovidIsNotOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsNotOver</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/COVIDisAirborne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COVIDisAirborne</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/CovidIsntOver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CovidIsntOver</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/ImmuneSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ImmuneSystem</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/ImmuneDysfunction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ImmuneDysfunction</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/autoimmune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autoimmune</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/TCell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TCell</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/chronicillness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>chronicillness</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.cr/tags/ChronicIllnesses" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChronicIllnesses</span></a></p>