[HN Gopher] UK researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes i...
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       UK researchers find Alzheimer's-like brain changes in long Covid
       patients
        
       Author : amichail
       Score  : 48 points
       Date   : 2024-08-30 21:38 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (uknow.uky.edu)
 (TXT) w3m dump (uknow.uky.edu)
        
       | _whiteCaps_ wrote:
       | I had strange symptoms post-Covid infection - my ability to
       | recognize faces was very distorted and it seemed like everyone
       | was familiar to me. It was like everyone I saw was an old high
       | school acquaintance or maybe a celebrity, and I would get anxious
       | because I didn't remember their name.
        
         | umanwizard wrote:
         | Did you recover?
        
       | umanwizard wrote:
       | UK meaning the University of Kentucky, not the United Kingdom.
        
         | dyauspitr wrote:
         | Then the title is clickbait; without too much insult intended
         | towards Kentucky.
        
           | dullcrisp wrote:
           | Why? Would this be more interesting if they were in the UK?
        
             | OJFord wrote:
             | Kind of, in the sense that it sounds like a global news
             | headline, vs. 'University of Exeter researchers find [...]'
             | published by exeter.ac.uk, on this globally read site.
        
           | zarmin wrote:
           | You have tested positive for long covid.
        
           | umanwizard wrote:
           | Not really clickbait. University of Kentucky press releases
           | always refer to it as UK.
        
       | ggm wrote:
       | Well the long term good might be novel treatments for one leading
       | to improvements in treatment for the other. But this would be an
       | extremely distressing outcome for any long covid sufferer to read
       | about. I am not one.
        
       | phkahler wrote:
       | No mention if it's caused by spike proteins. They seem to be the
       | cause of all problems Covid. And don't tell me the vaccine
       | proteins are magically different.
        
         | refulgentis wrote:
         | The spike is a sigil that induces a cell to say "Oh cool! You
         | have the ACE2 passcode! Let me inject you into me, virus!"
         | 
         | A replica of a key doesn't start a car: you need an engine too.
        
       | findthewords wrote:
       | Alz is brain inflammatory response to viruses (among other
       | foreing detritus) that got past the blood-brain barrier, so I'm
       | not surprised.
        
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