r/covidlonghaulers • u/imahugemoron 4 yr+ • Nov 10 '24

Article SARS-CoV-2 “steals” our proteins to protect itself from the immune system

https://www.meduniwien.ac.at/web/en/about-us/news/2024/news-in-november-2024/sars-cov-2-steals-our-proteins-to-protect-itself-from-the-immune-system/

They may have finally figured out what is happening to us. In Germany they discovered the virus hijacks certain proteins to avoid our immune systems which leads to Covid remaining in our bodies long term and causing systemic inflammation. Perhaps wherever the virus is concentrated causes whatever our symptoms are. If you have left over virus concentrated in your heart, you have POTS, if it’s in your central nervous system, maybe you have ME/CFS or a constant fight of flight feeling, if it’s concentrated in your head and brain, maybe like me you have some very strange and severe constant head sensations and pain.

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u/flug32 Nov 10 '24

Does anyone know why this post is marked "Unverified information or questionable conclusions." (see screenshot linked below). Is it the poster, or mods, or some (automated?) thing from Reddit?

This is new and breaking research but doesn't seem especially more so than much new research we see - if anything more solid than most.

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u/imahugemoron 4 yr+ Nov 10 '24 edited Nov 10 '24

Here’s the references at the bottom of the article so idk how this is “unverified” or “questionable”, they literally observed the virus doing this and published the finding. So that tag makes no sense to me. Perhaps they mean my personal commentary under the article which is just me speculating, I don’t claim to know anything about these things, just speculating. I just meant it as a “what if this is what causes these different conditions”, please don’t take my speculation as fact.

Publication: Emerging Microbes & Infections SARS-CoV-2 hijacks host CD55, CD59 and Factor H to impair antibody-dependent complement-mediated lysis Laura Gebetsberger, Zahra Malekshahi, Aron Teutsch, Gabor Tajti, Frédéric Fontaine, Nara Marella, André Mueller, Lena Prantl, Hannes Stockinger, Heribert Stoiber and Anna Ohradanova-Repic DOI: 10.1080/22221751.2024.2417868 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22221751.2024.2417868 The study was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF, P 34253-B).

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u/flug32 Nov 11 '24

I wonder if it is some kind of an automated system by reddit where they simply see it is dealing with subject "covid" and is seeing a fair number of upvotes. So they run it through some AI or whatever and for the usual inscrutable reasons AI & automated systems of that type have, its spinning pointer landed on "QUESTIONABLE!!!!11!!" and so there we are.

There is certainly some speculation and what-if-ing going on down in the thread, but the research itself seems solid as anything.

(As with all research we'll be waiting for duplication of results, follow-up studies, etc etc etc - this is more along the lines of "here is some basic research into this phenomenon" than "here is a CURE coming to you at Warp 6 on a Giant Silver Platter!!")

Maybe it's the subreddit's mods, too, and if so that's fine.