Data Report

Long COVID: SARS-CoV-2 spike protein accumulation linked to long-lasting brain effects.

This study was published on November 29th 2024.

Source of information.

1. Medical Xpress

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-11-covid-sars-cov-spike-protein.html

I wanted to share with readers that the layperson like myself can actually track down the people that did the study and ask them questions. It is empowering for us readers to be able to ask questions of the people that bring us these studies. Likewise I think very highly of those who present us such studies especially when they are willing to talk about their work and studies to people like you and me...

(because I am unaccustomed as to what the customs are, if there are any, about disclosing my personal emails, I will block out the person's name who replied from the team involved in the study simply because I did not get permission to publicly post their response from my email. I plan on asking if its okay to post using their personal name later)

I asked the  people who did this study the following and someone on their team had the integrity, interest, and time to write me back...


Masked Man Asks,
"Does your testing occur in stages for example with mice:
1)First do you or did you test an ample supply of mice that haven't
been vaccinated nor injected with covid for pre-existing conditions
just to make sure that particular batch of mice are essentially
healthy and normal before proceeding and then take tests for any
possible pre-existing spike proteins?
2)Then do you give vaccination to same previously tested mice and then
test for spike proteins in brain?
3) Then do you inject these very same mice with covid and test for
spike proteins in brain?
4) did you leave some of the mice uninfected with covid and retested
the uninfected mice for spike proteins in brain just in case they
developed spike protein after a certain amount of time from the
vaccine alone"?

Dear Masked Man,
I am following up on your email and will try to reply to your questions about the mice groups.
The mice we used come from certified vendors with health reports confirming they are pathogen-free. In our experiments, we had distinct groups of mice:
Our control group remained completely untreated - no vaccination or infection. When we tested these mice, they showed no spike protein in their meninges, confirming their initial health status and the specificity of our detection methods.
The experimental group was infected with SARS-CoV-2, and we analyzed their meninges at different time points after infection. We found spike protein persisting in the meninges even after the active infection had resolved.
We did not study the effect of vaccination alone in this research, as our focus was on understanding how viral infection affects the meninges. Your questions about vaccine effects would be an interesting follow-up study, but that was not part of our current experimental design.
Kind regards,
****r**a
ali.erturk@helmholtz-munich.de