"We need to be very firm with our messaging that there's no such thing as a mild SARS-COV-2 infection. There's no such thing as a SARS-COV-2 infection that does not have prolonged consequences. Until we can fully understand the long-term effects of COVID, the only thing that we can do to protect ourselves, our families and our immune systems in the long-term is to avoid infection."
- Dr. David Putrino, director of rehabilitation innovation at Mount Sinai Health System
"What we know is that, if you're infected with #COVID19, even if it's a mild infection, we know that SARS-COV-2 seems to affect the immune system. Our group, along with our collaborators from Yale and Stanford University, as well as other groups, have published multiple times that even mild COVID infections seem to affect the way that your natural killer cells attack infections, it seems to affect the way our T-cells attack infections and protect us from infections."
"One of the notions that we actually need to challenge is that, for the longest time, we've told people that if you get an illness and you recover, it just makes you stronger. What we're seeing over and over again is that's not the case with #COVID19. Every time you get a COVID infection, your immune system seems to suffer."
@augieray I think pretty much every illness takes a bit of a long term toll on you, this "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" thing was always false for any disease, IIUC.
I know covid *can* have long-term devastating consequences, but I don't understand where this idea that "there cannot be a mild infection" came from?
I and many people I know have had mild covid infections and seem totally fine. Mild as in: miserable fire a few days, etc, then as ~full a recovery as any cold/flu.
@kaffando @augieray https://youtu.be/M-K7mxdN62M a fun yet disturbing presentation of this idea.
@ech @augieray
I'm sorry, but you've missed the point, entirely.
EVERY #COVID19 infection affects the immune system.
Every. Single. Episode.
The severity of the episode is neither here, nor there.