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For acute yes, who knows for post-acute.

Many viruses are linked to cancers, MS, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, T1D and so on. Research is finding that some of these viruses may actually be low grade infections or left over viral proteins causing constant immune dysfunction.

People who claimed they never got SARS-CoV-2 for example were tested with a novel ultra sensitive single molecule assay and found that 99.9% of individuals samples were indeed asymptomatically infected.

Here’s an earlier version of this claim showing 95%.

https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/230/3/e601/7639429

Some of these individuals later went on to develop Long COVID. They are using this assay in an antiviral trial to see if it reduces the amount of SCV2 proteins this assay can detect.

https://youtu.be/B1sFSW94JZg?si=7mvHAJGjrJiOLaW7




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