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I don't think it's going to help them. long covid is past the stage of virus infection. It's where the body is attacking itself.
It depends! Sometimes it's autoimmune, sometimes it's lingering virus, sometimes it's disrupted regulatory systems, etc. When it's the immune system or lingering virus, a new vaccine can often get the immune system to relearn how to correctly handle the virus
Doesn't chickenpox turn into shingles by infecting the nervous system?
Could long covid be related to that?
The virus that causes chicken pox, lies dormant in your nervous system, where your immune system can’t get it, for decades. Then much later in life the virus can reactivate, infect along those nerves, causing shingles.
This is the important part of the chicken pox vaccination the we don’t talk about nearly enough.
Supposedly something like one in three elderly will get shingles, when they can’t as easily deal with it. As current generation gets old, that illness will practically disappear
If you have older relatives and friends (50+), do remind them that we have shingles vaccine: Shingrix.
And let them know it hurts for a few days, so get it on a Friday.
Nah don't fuck up your weekend, call in sick as needed if you're working.
This is a good point. I do tend to get my vaccine shots (Covid and flu) on Fridays to account for recovery days.
We can save shingles if we stop vaccinating now!
the varicella vaccine prevents severe infections, but its not entirely protective against it, it just makes you asymptomatic, and once you get reinfected it can still become dormant, and get hsingles, just less chances of getting it.
different issues. varicella can cause shingles, when it travels to your dorsal root ganglia near your spine or the ganglia in your head,or rarely it can become dormant in your autonomic nervous system.
varicella, a herpes isnt the same thing as coronavirus. long covid is just laymen terms for complications or sequalae. Covid can trigger shingles, because your immune system is fighting the covid virus instead of shingles.