#also the gut is a mass of neuronal and immune cells. so it fits multiple categories

[horse-is-a-horse-of-course]

eeeee my mom got her paper on long covid published in Nature Medicine!

it supports a body of evidence she’s been gathering over decades that indicates that many more people might be at risk of serious health complications from infections than our available data gathering methods can detect - and that dysfunction in the immune system, pre-existing or not, might play some role in post-acute infectious syndromes.