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What we know about Covid’s impact on your brain: Scientists are worried that persisting cognitive issues may signal a coming surge of dementia and other mental conditions
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Well that is gonna suck...
The article is paywalled so I couldn't see if my question is answered in it, so I'll sheepishly ask here: would the side effects from the vaccine cause similar cognitive issues? I'm not anti-vaxx, I had my COVID vaccine and as many free boosters that the government offered, I'm just curious and not well-versed in medicine/virology/biology. If not, what causes the vaccine to act differently than the virus? Is it because it's either a weaker form or in the case of an mRNA vaccine, just "virus instructions"?
No worries re. the anti-vaccination thing, I get that it’s hard to ask questions about some topics without attracting severe reactions … hopefully your experience on tildes hasn’t had many examples of those.
I’m not a medical professional, but the article (archive link in another top level comment, after you posted) under “How Covid Harms the Brain” seems to describe effects of the immune response against a full blown infection. The intent behind vaccines is to prepare your immune system well before an infection can become severe enough for that to be an issue. At a guess, I’d say that the vaccine can’t cause the same problems as a severe infection.
Right, I'm not a medical professional either, but I have heard medical professionals explain this very same thing to me as analogous to training an army to fight in a war.
The training itself takes time (after you get your vaccine, your immune system is maximally protected about two to three weeks post-shot) and does consume some level of resources like food, fuel, and ammunition (you may feel tired, achy, or otherwise sort of unwell for up to one or two days post-shot), but then the training is over and you're ready to fight.
A well-trained army (your vaccinated immune system) can defeat the enemy (COVID) more swiftly and with less collateral damage to the surrounding battlefield (civilian populations, infrastructure) than an untrained army (your un-vaccinated immune system) that has to slog through a longer, more protracted, more destructive war. Early WW2 blitzkrieg vs early WW1 trench warfare.
The brain damage in this article can be thought of an example of collateral damage from the protracted, messy war fought by your untrained immune system. Keeping your army trained via boosters helps avoid those wars, and therefore significant damage to all sorts of bodily systems (brain, cardiovascular, pulmonary, the list goes on).
It's peace through deterrence via overwhelming military superiority.
I have never seen this analogy used, but it works well.
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