The virus has nothing to do with DNA. DNA is like your cells brain, it's wrapped up neatly in the middle of the cell and is extremely difficult to get into and change. Typically cancer is the result of DNA changes.
Viruses latch onto certain types of receptors on cell walls which allows them to a variety of things, the biggest being able to enter a cell to turn the protein creating portions of your cells into virus producing factories. This process causes your immune system to react and try to kill those infected cells to prevent the spread, this is what generally causes actual symptoms of being sick like fever, body aches, cough, etc. The body can go into overdrive with this which is called a cytokine storm which is the big issue early on with covid. This reaction causes severe inflammation and a bunch of other issues.
In regards to the cell marker the virus targets, it's different for every virus and they all work in different ways. Covid is thought to like the ACE2 receptor which is found largely in the lungs, heart, blood vessels, kidneys, and the GI system which explains the slew of symptoms.
In terms of treatments, the treatments that have been used all work in very different ways. Ivermectin and HCQ are both anti parasitic drugs with HCQ also being an immunosuppressant. The thought behind these ones helping was that it prevented the body from going into the cytokine storm that is essentially the kickstart for the whole illness cascade. Based on what the docs around here are talking about they basically think these drugs have to essentially be timed perfectly for it to be truly effective. Being a preventative treatment means it isn't guaranteed to prevent illness and people will still get sick regardless.
Take all this with a grain of salt. I obviously don't have all the answers to everything, but this is based on what I have seen personally with covid ICU patients over the past year as well as what the infectious disease and pulmonology docs are using in their treatments.
I had no idea the virus operated in an autoimmune way. That makes sense as to the slew of symptoms like you said.bGod bless you for your efforts. You're one of the good ones for sure.
What are your thoughts on herd immunity as an eventual mitigation technique?
If you want a visual and great explanation on the concept of herd immunity look up the chain of infection and read a little bit about it.
Basically for a comment reply, the gist is that there are 6 main components that are necessary for disease to spread. If you break any of the links in that chain then you prevent the spread of infection. The more links you break the harder the spread for infection.
Each infection is different and acts in different ways and our own man made preventions and such all have different levels of effectiveness.
As an example, dysentery is severe diarrhea caused by pathogens in contaminated food and water. As long as you prevent the contamination of food and water this essentially goes away. This is something we essentially "cured" through improved hygiene hundreds of years ago.
For something like influenza which has VERY hit or miss immunization coverage and that is spread easily by respiratory droplets that are coughed or sneezed up it is better to have a combination of approaches which is why they recommend the influenza vaccine for those at risk of coming into contact or those who are at risk of serious complications if they get influenza. They also recommend people covering coughs and sneezes, not touching your face, social distancing, and washing hands frequently.
Herd immunity is something you want when the spread of something is not easily controlled by breaking other links in that chain. Measles is an airborne virus. It has super small particles that travel easily and the infection can be EXTREMELY dangerous and even deadly. You can't exactly just cover your cough (mode of transmission) and not touch your face (portal of entry) because you can literally just breath that virus in from the air. This is where the idea of herd immunity comes in. If enough people are vaccinated and able to effectively fight the virus and prevent it's spread it no longer has a host (reservoir) to hang out in. If you make enough people immune to being reservoirs, then people who are unable to get vaccines for whatever reason are at a much lower risk of becoming infected.
The virus has nothing to do with DNA. DNA is like your cells brain, it's wrapped up neatly in the middle of the cell and is extremely difficult to get into and change. Typically cancer is the result of DNA changes.
Viruses latch onto certain types of receptors on cell walls which allows them to a variety of things, the biggest being able to enter a cell to turn the protein creating portions of your cells into virus producing factories. This process causes your immune system to react and try to kill those infected cells to prevent the spread, this is what generally causes actual symptoms of being sick like fever, body aches, cough, etc. The body can go into overdrive with this which is called a cytokine storm which is the big issue early on with covid. This reaction causes severe inflammation and a bunch of other issues.
In regards to the cell marker the virus targets, it's different for every virus and they all work in different ways. Covid is thought to like the ACE2 receptor which is found largely in the lungs, heart, blood vessels, kidneys, and the GI system which explains the slew of symptoms.
In terms of treatments, the treatments that have been used all work in very different ways. Ivermectin and HCQ are both anti parasitic drugs with HCQ also being an immunosuppressant. The thought behind these ones helping was that it prevented the body from going into the cytokine storm that is essentially the kickstart for the whole illness cascade. Based on what the docs around here are talking about they basically think these drugs have to essentially be timed perfectly for it to be truly effective. Being a preventative treatment means it isn't guaranteed to prevent illness and people will still get sick regardless.
Take all this with a grain of salt. I obviously don't have all the answers to everything, but this is based on what I have seen personally with covid ICU patients over the past year as well as what the infectious disease and pulmonology docs are using in their treatments.
I had no idea the virus operated in an autoimmune way. That makes sense as to the slew of symptoms like you said.bGod bless you for your efforts. You're one of the good ones for sure.
What are your thoughts on herd immunity as an eventual mitigation technique?
If you want a visual and great explanation on the concept of herd immunity look up the chain of infection and read a little bit about it.
Basically for a comment reply, the gist is that there are 6 main components that are necessary for disease to spread. If you break any of the links in that chain then you prevent the spread of infection. The more links you break the harder the spread for infection.
Each infection is different and acts in different ways and our own man made preventions and such all have different levels of effectiveness.
As an example, dysentery is severe diarrhea caused by pathogens in contaminated food and water. As long as you prevent the contamination of food and water this essentially goes away. This is something we essentially "cured" through improved hygiene hundreds of years ago.
For something like influenza which has VERY hit or miss immunization coverage and that is spread easily by respiratory droplets that are coughed or sneezed up it is better to have a combination of approaches which is why they recommend the influenza vaccine for those at risk of coming into contact or those who are at risk of serious complications if they get influenza. They also recommend people covering coughs and sneezes, not touching your face, social distancing, and washing hands frequently.
Herd immunity is something you want when the spread of something is not easily controlled by breaking other links in that chain. Measles is an airborne virus. It has super small particles that travel easily and the infection can be EXTREMELY dangerous and even deadly. You can't exactly just cover your cough (mode of transmission) and not touch your face (portal of entry) because you can literally just breath that virus in from the air. This is where the idea of herd immunity comes in. If enough people are vaccinated and able to effectively fight the virus and prevent it's spread it no longer has a host (reservoir) to hang out in. If you make enough people immune to being reservoirs, then people who are unable to get vaccines for whatever reason are at a much lower risk of becoming infected.