for those who keep saying " i will take my chances with it ...."
The Coronavirus Can Persist for Months in Brain, Heart, and Intestines, Major Study Finds
I know the other tissues are places where viruses can hide since our immune system mostly kills viruses by destroying infected cells, which it won’t do for nerve tissue or cardiac tissue, so as long as it stays there, your immune system is limited in what it can do.
That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a problem there, but it does mean it could expand beyond there if your immune system is compromised later. If I’m not mistaken this is how chicken pox hides away for super long periods of time only to spread again and causes shingles when your immune system is compromised, usually just through aging. Herpes viruses (which the chickenpox virus is a type of) all do that, they reside in the nerve ganglia.
Another class of viruses that "does that" (sticking around) is retroviruses: they don't go away as the genetic material that codes for them gets actually embedded into your cells' DNA. the best known retrovirus is HIV and this is what made HIV so tough to get a handle on for a long time. The virus hides out in reservoirs throughout your body so it wrecks you in waves and you never really know if you ever got it all out.
this may explain some of the long term heart issues that they are seeing with Covid survivors - the ability of the virus to reside and remain may be part of the why for the rare but confirmed side effect from the vaccine of inflamed heart tissue found in like less than .001% of teens.
