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Andrew Sparling

@awsparling

Ph.D., history. History of science & medicine; Paracelsus; c16 Germany. Husband & father. Same handle on Bluesky, Spoutible, & Mastodon—esp. Bluesky.

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20 days ago

A very important paper is out in Nature on the role of pathological coagulation in Long COVID. Spike protein causes thromboinflamation by binding to fibrinogen, the soluble blood protein that converts to fibrin, the central component of blood clots. That inflammation in turn