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Rich-Juice2517 t1_iypss6m wrote

Reply to comment by apathy-sofa in 13 Dead From Flu In WA State, Activity 'Very High' by cailinloesch

That's a part of it. Seeing if i can find the article again

Found it

>Leonardi was one of the first experts to recognize how SARS-CoV-2 damages T cells, which worsens with repeat infections. In late 2020, he and Rui Proenca, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University, published research in Frontiers in Immunology describing SARS-CoV-2 as a "lympho-manipulative pathogen," meaning it alters the immune organs called lymph nodes, and "distorts T cell function, numbers, and death, and creates a dysfunctional immune response."

It's linked also in r/everythingscience

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ktbug1987 t1_iyqacz6 wrote

I’m a scientist and this is now well established (that COVID weakens your immune system through m a host of interactions with T cells, regardless of if you get long haul symptoms). It’s also well established that multiple COVID infections are associated with more impacted T cells. Population wise, since most have had COVID at least once and sometimes more than once by now, it is likely one of the things contributing to the current surge of viral illness this cold and flu season.

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Rich-Juice2517 t1_iyr02ov wrote

How long has it been since it was first established?

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ktbug1987 t1_iysym65 wrote

End of 2020 was the first paper suggesting it — as it states above, but there have been many many papers further elucidating the mechanisms since then.

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