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So I'm working on a series of posts in relation to the case report, mostly looking into Parkinson's Disease and how it may relate to the report you guys discussed.

I haven't looked too deeply into the livestream yet. I do think there's a valid point in raising hesitation against Campbell's remarks being definitive. However, at the same time I think the rebuttals have their own issues which weren't addressed by MedCram or Oliver.

The Mezache, et al. piece argued that the lack of nucleocapsid in the heart may be due to the fact that direct viral infection of the heart isn't the cause of myocarditis, but that inflammatory markers and other factors may infiltrate the heart and induce they myocarditis such as macrophages which may take spike from the lungs and then may spread to non-respiratory organs.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1092913422000855

To Oliver's point on the neuropathology and the suggestion that spike in the brain is incidental to the neuropathology findings reported, it's important to note that most of the patients were much older and several had dementia or Parkinson's Disease. Therefore, it raises the question of differentials. That is, is the damage to the brain due to the neurodegenerative disease and the spike are just bystanders, or did the bystanders play a role but becomes difficult to parse given the other factors.

The researchers don't appear to raise any comments about the neurodegenerative factor of the people included in their autopsies.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7535629/

Apologies if you and Joomi have already gone over those topics. I only skimmed the livestream and some of the other videos that sort of "rebutted" the remarks from the autopsy.

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Are your live streams recorded for watching later?

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