Sublime

something like autoimmune disease or long COVID falls into the third category of illness; it combines biology and biography in ways that are difficult for most of us (whether scientists or laypeople) to conceptualize.

For example, Arizona included anyone “who died of a heart or lung condition who received a positive COVID-19 test within 60 days,” according to the public health director of the state’s largest county.5

the COVID-19 pandemic has given us a keen sense of how variable the human response to infection can be, vividly dramatizing the ways that a virus or bacterium (or multiple viruses and bacteria) can collide with an individual’s biology to unleash a host of perplexing aftereffects in the body, often incited by the individual’s immune system. The scop

the illness was not just my own; the silence around suffering was our society’s pathology.

However, it is being discovered, to everyone’s apparent amazement, that many people, even most people, are dying as the result of increased blood clotting. Heart attacks, strokes, kidney failure and widespread thrombi in the micro-circulation, known as disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). “Based on recent reports, the most severely ill pat