Page 4: Medical journals and videos on damage to brain, organs and immunity system from SARS-CoV-2
Brain injury from Covid-19
What do we know about covid-19’s effects on the brain?: “The most common neurological symptoms are loss of smell (anosmia) and loss of taste (ageusia). … as 68% of people experience loss of smell and 44% lose their sense of taste. … These symptoms are much like those experienced after a “mild traumatic brain injury” or from concussion —including dizziness, headaches, seizures, stroke, delirium, and balance disturbances.” British Medical Journal (BMJ), 15 May 2024
New Evidence Suggests Long COVID Could Be a Brain Injury: “Brain fog symptoms may be the result of a viral-borne brain injury that may cause cognitive and mental health issues that persist for years.” Medscape, February 2024
Long Covid and Impaired Cognition — More Evidence and More Work to Do: “As compared with uninfected participants (control), cognitive deficit — commensurate with a 3-point loss in IQ — was evident even in participants who had had mild Covid-19 with resolved symptoms. Participants with unresolved persistent symptoms had the equivalent of a 6-point loss in IQ, and those who had been admitted to the intensive care unit had the equivalent of a 9-point loss in IQ.” The New England Journal of Medicine, 28 February 2024
Long COVID: major findings, mechanisms and recommendations: “Cognitive impairments in long COVID are debilitating, at the same magnitude as intoxication at the UK drink driving limit or 10 years of cognitive ageing, and may increase over time … increased risks of cognitive impairment (brain fog), seizures, dementia, psychosis and other neurocognitive conditions persisted for at least 2 years.” Nature, March 2023
Military Pilots Reported 1,700% More Medical Incidents During the Pandemic. The Pentagon Says They Just Had COVID: The number of medical events that triggered official reporting requirements among U.S. military pilots rose more than 1,700% from 2019 to 2022, an increase the Pentagon says was the result of COVID-19. Military, 9 February 2023
SARS-CoV-2 infects neurons and induces neuroinflammation in a non-human primate model of COVID-19 – VIDEO and PAPER: California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC) “Neurons are initially the primary target of SARS-CoV-2 productive infection – Neurocovid is accompanied by robust neuroinflammation and vascular disruption – SARS-CoV-2 brain pathology is worsened by aging and diabetes in infected monkeys” Science Direct, November 2022
Neurological and psychiatric risk trajectories after SARS-CoV-2 infection: “The persisting increased risk of post-COVID-19 cognitive deficit, dementia, psychotic disorders, and epilepsy or seizures 2 years after the index infection calls for enhanced service provision to diagnose and manage these sequelae, and research to understand the mechanisms.” The Lancet, October 2022
SARS-CoV-2 is associated with changes in brain structure in UK Biobank: “The overlapping olfactory- and memory-related functions of the regions shown to alter significantly over time in SARS-CoV-2 raise the possibility that longer-term consequences of SARS-CoV-2 infection might in time contribute to Alzheimer’s disease or other forms of dementia.” Nature, March 2022
How Covid attacks the brain may explain long-lasting symptoms: “New research, while considered preliminary, may shed light on why some people experience ongoing neurological symptoms, such as brain fog.” NBC News, 4 November 2021
Use it or lose it: How neurogenesis keeps the brain fit for learning: “Thousands of new neurons are added into the adult hippocampus each day. However, most of the new cells do not survive. In fact, over half of them, if not more, die within just a few weeks of their birth. One of the most effective ways to keep these cells from dying is by learning.” Science Direct, 23 April 2011
Immunity system damage from Covid-19
Severe COVID-19 May Cause Long-Term Immune System Changes: “The stem cells of people who recovered from severe COVID-19 produced more white blood cells — which then produced more inflammatory signals — than the cells of healthy counterparts.” NIH, October 2023
SARS-CoV-2 infection weakens immune-cell response to vaccination: HIV in slomo.”… suggest that the virus damages an important immune-cell response … that SARS-CoV-2 infection damages the CD8+ T cell response, an effect akin to that observed in earlier studies showing long-term damage to the immune system after infection with viruses such as hepatitis C or HIV.” National Institute of Health (NIH), March 2023
Vaccine versus infection: The controversial Pfizer/BioNTec vaccine (shorter-lived than Novavax, slightly raised side effects) is still better at protecting you than raw infection according to this study. “Herd immunity” is soundly refuted. “Spheromers reveal robust T cell responses to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine and attenuated peripheral CD8+ T cell responses post SARS-CoV-2 infection. … SARS-CoV-2 virus infection may cause long-term damage to the patients’ immune system well after viral clearance. Robust T cell responses to the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine compared to infection and evidence of attenuated CD8+ T cell responses due to COVID-19.
How COVID-19 Changes the Immune System “Antibodies, B cells, and T cells are among the best known parts of the body’s response to a virus like SARS-CoV-2 …” Parent stem cells “can spread their inflammatory effects to other tissues. … these hyper responsive cells preferentially gravitate toward the lungs, brain, and heart, some of the organs most heavily affected by Long COVID.” Time, August 2023
MASK INFO – FFP3, FFP2, N95, surgical masks and respirators: what should we be wearing for ophthalmic surgery in the COVID-19 pandemic? “FFP2 (N95) masks have a minimum of 94% filtration percentage whilst FFP3 masks are the most filtering mask of the FFPs. … An aerosol in the context of COVID-19 is a suspension of fine liquiddroplets in air. Although well known to occur with coughing and sneezing, they can also be produced during talking and normal breathing.” National Library of Medicine, 26 May 2020
Covid is a haematoxin — damage to heart as well as brain and immunity
Transcriptomic profiling of cardiac tissues from SARS-CoV-2 patients identifies DNA damage: Not “just like flu”. Covid damages DNA in the heart even when the virus is gone, unlike flu. “In comparison with the 2009 pandemic (pH1N1), SARS-CoV-2 infection is likely to lead to more severe disease, with multi-organ effects, including cardiovascular disease. … COVID-19 drives a now recognized syndrome which can result in acute myocardial infarction, myocardial injury, heart failure, disseminated thrombosis, hypotension, arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death.” Immunology, 15 September 2022
Debunking COVID-19 myths: From vaccines and myocarditis to blood clotting and strokes. Mayo Clinic
Clinical updates August 2024
Long COVID: a clinical update: “Post-COVID-19 condition (also known as long COVID) is generally defined as symptoms persisting for 3 months or more after acute COVID-19. Long COVID can affect multiple organ systems and lead to severe and protracted impairment of function as a result of organ damage.” The Lancet, August 2024
Cognitive and psychiatric symptom trajectories 2–3 years after hospital admission for COVID-19: Yes, symptoms can get worse. “COVID-19 is known to be associated with increased risks of cognitive and psychiatric outcomes after the acute phase of disease. … Depression, anxiety, and fatigue were worse at 2–3 years than at 6 months or 12 months, with evidence of both worsening of existing symptoms and emergence of new symptoms. … Occupation change was strongly and specifically associated with objective cognitive deficits … and subjective cognitive decline.” The Lancet, September 2024
Origins – The Science
Genetic tracing of market wildlife and viruses at the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic: Latest scientific evidence on raccoon dogs being the source of a spillover event into humans at the Huanan Seafood market in Wuhan. Powerful, persuasive argument but doesn’t quite explain 106 US Red Cross blood samples taken December 2019 being antigen positive, implying infection months earlier across nine states. “This suggests that the detected raccoon dogs in the Huanan market in late 2019 were … from at least two populations, both genetically distinct from those raised on fur farms or sold in markets in cities in northern China. It is unknown how far south the wild and farmed range of the subpopulations detected here extends … These data are consistent with a geographic origin of the raccoon dogs in the Huanan market in central or southern China, from which a viral transmission chain within the animal trade could have arisen after a spillover from a bat reservoir south of Wuhan.” CELL paper, 19 September 2024
Serological Evidence of Bat SARS-Related Coronavirus Infection in Humans, China: “Subsequent work identified genetically diverse SARSr-CoVs in Chinese horseshoe bats (Rhinolo- phus sinicus) in a county of Yunnan Province, China and provided strong evidence that bats are the natural reservoir of SARS-CoV … SARSr-CoVs that use the SARS-CoV receptor, angiotensin converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) have been isolated. These results indicate that some SARSr-CoVs may have high potential to infect human cells, without the necessity for an intermediate host. … Our study provides the first serological evidence of likely human infection by bat SARSr-CoVs or, potentially, related viruses. … 2.7% seropositivity for the high risk group of residents living in close proximity to bat colonies … this study further supports the notion that some bat SARSr-CoVs are able to directly infect humans without intermediate hosts … further, more extensive surveillance in this region is warranted. It might also be prudent to combine serological surveillance with molecular surveillance of bats in future, despite the technological challenges that this represents.” Scientists including Peter Daszak and Zheng-Li Shi, 21 November 2017
The Covid Pandemic, Page 1: How coronavirus was weaponised – natural disaster, man-made calamity
The Covid Pandemic, Page 2: Sir Patrick Vallance’s Sky News “herd immunity” interview, 13 March 2020. Full transcipt.
The Covid Pandemic, Page 3: How “herd immunity” won and changed humanity’s health forever. Public Health vs Big Business conflict.
The Covid Pandemic, Page 4: THIS PAGE Medical journals and videos on the damage to the brain and immunity system
The Covid Pandemic, Page 5: I caught Covid again and it’s not getting any better. Covid Inquiry: denial of Airborne vs Droplets mode of transmission prolonged the pandemic
BOOKLET – Treacherous Ancestry: An extraordinary hunt for the ghosts of SARS-CoV-2. A free-access, click-through booklet about the origins of SARS-CoV-2. Puts gain-of-function and lab creation myths to bed.
Covid Inquiry UK website
Covid Inquiry YouTube
THE NUMBERS – OFFICE OF NATIONAL STATISTICS (ONS): The BBC reports that more than 44 million people in the UK were estimated to have had the virus between April 2020 and February 2022, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Based on the survey, the estimated peak of the pandemic, in cases if not in deaths, was in late March 2022, where at one point about 4.9 million people were thought to have the virus. Just under 227,000 people died in the UK with Covid-19 listed as one of the causes on their death certificate. Since 9 December 2020, nearly 176 million Covid vaccines have been administered in various stages up to May 2023.
