scooter wrote: ↑Tue Jul 05, 2022 4:03 pm Some exceptionally bad news for those following actual science and health news: Nature (and some other sources) is reporting that one of the effects of COVID-19 is the build-up of amyloid proteins on neuroreceptors, similar to the mechanism of Alzheimer's; this is believed to be the cause of the loss of sense of smell that comes with the disease.
The good news is that pre-treatment through vaccination greatly mitigates this effect...
I learned this on Quora through a medical professional in the field. I will include citations in the comments as soon as I can. The takeaway here would seem to be that getting vaccinated is very important.
Oh, that's weird. I wouldn't think there would be a Covid-news-fatigue from them.
