r/science • u/Wagamaga • Feb 03 '25

Neuroscience Scientists discover that even mild COVID-19 can alter brain proteins linked to Alzheimer’s disease, potentially increasing dementia risk—raising urgent public health concerns.

https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/260553/covid-19-linked-increase-biomarkers-abnormal-brain/
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u/Corleysaurus Feb 03 '25

Get vaccinated, y’all.

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u/mb2231 Feb 03 '25

The study makes it sound like it wouldn't matter.

I've gotten the COVID vaccine each year and already have had COVID two times. It was mild but the study specifically says that mild COVID can be a contributor.

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u/Think_Discipline_90 Feb 03 '25 edited Feb 03 '25

What kind of logic tells you mild vs severe carries the same risk?

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u/aguyinphuket Feb 03 '25

Perhaps not the same risks, but there is not necessarily a direct correlation between the severity of pulmonary symptoms caused by COVID infection and the severity of the damage to proteins in the brain such an infection can cause.

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u/Think_Discipline_90 Feb 03 '25

Anything is possible, yes.

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u/fadingsignal Feb 04 '25

It's not logic, studies point to this. People are still too focused on the acute phase of COVID (rightly so considering how it behaved in early 2020.) But it gets everywhere through the body and causes myriad downstream issues we still don't understand.

Here's one about neurological effects and how severity or vaccination doesn't affect outcome:

https://news.nm.org/new-research-finds-covid-19-vaccination-prior-to-infection-does-not-affect-the-neurological-symptoms-of-long-covid

Here's one on how long-COVID appears to stem more from mild cases than acute ones:

https://www.govexec.com/management/2023/01/long-covid-stemmed-mild-cases-covid-19-most-people-according-new-multicountry-study/381491/

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25

Scientific method. You are making an assumption

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u/Think_Discipline_90 Feb 04 '25

I am, and so is he. Haven't tested either hypothesis, so it's best to assume vaccines still help.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '25

No. It's best not to assume and get proper studies done.

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u/Think_Discipline_90 Feb 04 '25

Okay. Then stop taking vaccines until we have figured out the universe.

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u/Think_Discipline_90 Feb 04 '25

You know you're just being annoying and pedantic now. Probably mid college age?

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u/Think_Discipline_90 Feb 04 '25

Okay I will thanks bye

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