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However, symptoms such as fatigue are often not recognized as being associated with myocarditis. And Dr. McManus suspects that the fatigue that sometimes follows a battle with Covid-19 could be caused by this heart problem.

“We view Covid-19 and influenza as respiratory diseases, and indeed they are,” said Dr. Bruce M. McManus, Professor Emeritus of Pathology at the University of British Columbia. “But the reason many patients die in many cases is because of the myocardium.”

Some seriously ill Covid patients have lung damage. That can also happen with other viruses, said Dr. Clemente Britto-Leon, lung researcher at the Yale School of Medicine. He lists a few possibilities.

“You can have lung injuries and scars with influenza, herpes viruses, and cytomegalovirus infections,” said Dr. Britto and was referring to a common virus that usually doesn’t cause symptoms. All of these viruses can, on rare occasions, cause harm, he said. “You can have a very serious injury and a lot of tissue damage.”

Influenza can cause blood clots in the lining of the lungs that look just like the small blood clots in the lungs of some Covid patients, said Marco Goeijenbier of Erasmus University in the Netherlands. It happens when flu viruses infect the lower respiratory tract, an unusual occurrence since most people already have protective immunity.

Dr. Goeijenbier wants to examine the blood clots that occur in these cases. So far, he and others have reproduced and examined the effects in so few patients in laboratory studies and in ferrets – the animals of choice for studying the flu.

“It was hard to get money,” he said. “Big magazines or funders didn’t find it interesting enough,” he said.

Covid changes that.

There is now “a huge cohort of people to study,” said Pamela Dalton, a olfactory researcher at Monell. But “the big question is, even if you learn all about SARS-CoV-2” – the formal name of the coronavirus – “how generalizable is it?”

It sounds a little dystopian, I’ll admit that. But let’s listen to it.

Currently, according to these experts, the federal government’s response to disinformation and domestic extremism is arbitrary, spread across multiple agencies, and there is a lot of unnecessary overlap.

Renée DiResta, disinformation researcher at Stanford Internet Observatory, identified two seemingly unrelated problems: misinformation about Covid-19 and misinformation about election fraud.

Often times, she said, the same people and groups are responsible for spreading both types. Instead of two parallel processes – one in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which aims to contain conspiracy theories related to Covid, and one in the federal election commission, which seeks to correct misinformation during voting – a centralized task force could do one only coordinate. strategic answer.

“If each of them does this on their own and independently, there is a risk of missing links, both in terms of content and in terms of the tactics used to run the campaigns,” Ms. DiResta said.

This task force could also meet regularly with technology platforms and push for structural changes that could help these companies address their own extremism and misinformation problems. (For example, it could formulate “safe haven” exceptions that would allow platforms to share data on QAnon and other conspiracy theory communities with researchers and government agencies without violating privacy laws.) And it could be the tip of the spear for them Response of the Federal Government to the Reality Crisis.

Check the algorithms.

Several experts recommended the Biden administration to bring much more transparency into the inner workings of the black box algorithms that Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other major platforms use to rate feeds, recommend content and introduce users to private groups, many of whom do doing was responsible for reinforcing conspiracy theories and extremist views.

“We need to open the hood on social media to allow civil rights lawyers and real surveillance organizations to investigate human rights abuses that technology is enabling or exacerbating,” said Dr. Donovan.