Four Years in the Skull
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In the meninges and skull bone of COVID survivors, spike protein remains detectable for up to four years after infection, independent of direct viral infection of the brain and likely sustained by viral reservoirs. Meta-analyses covering more than four million patients find memory problems in 27.8% of people with Long COVID, while PET scans still show elevated microglial activation two years after infection. All of this is unfolding without epidemiological surveillance, without a national monitoring program, and inside a public debate in which mainstream institutions avoid the persistence findings to protect the vaccination ledger while vaccine critics downplay the quantitative dominance of infection in order to keep the vaccine in the role of principal culprit.