Reactivated TB is a Bellweather for Covid's Immune Harm

Their idea, not mine

People have fervently denied Covid harms immunity beyond the extent of what a common cold may do. They conveniently ignore mountains of evidence of viral reactivation in the acute phase, greater risk of Herpes reactivation, and some, scoff at the heightened risk of reactivated TB.

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But not Francois Balloux, one of the individuals who has argued that covid induced lymphocytopenia is similar to that of a common cold (it’s not). In 2022 he claimed “TB incidence may represent the best bellweather for covid-induced post-infection immune damage…” “Latent TB turns into active disease in immunocompromised people.”

Dear reader, the best indicator for the immune harm following covid were the phenotypes of the cells of the immune system. If you understood those, you would understand how fighting this infection taxes the system.

If you look back to 2020, you can see I directly warn the control of intracellular pathogens can be compromised from such phenotypes. And what do we see? EBV reads going up, TB reactivating, mycoplasma pneumoniae rising.

What’s very interesting is how these infections are not going to stop. I have argued that sars cov 2 can harm the immune systems of a population to the extent for something that is normally an R value of .98 could theoretically be pushed into R- 1.01, and then you have spread of infection that wouldn’t have existed without covid’s help.

Take care,

AJ