SPIKE PROTEIN & POST-VIRAL SYNDROMES

The Biology of Persistent Viral Damage and Recovery.

Post-viral syndromes — conditions in which symptoms persist or worsen months after an acute infection has resolved — represent one of the most significant emerging public health challenges. The SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, whether from infection or injection, has been shown in peer-reviewed research to be independently pathogenic: binding to ACE2 receptors in vascular endothelium, triggering platelet activation and microclotting, crossing the blood-brain barrier, disrupting mitochondrial function, and inducing a chronic pro-inflammatory state. Long COVID affects an estimated 2 million people in the UK, and the biological mechanisms — viral persistence in gut reservoirs, autoantibody formation, and neuroinflammation — are now increasingly characterised.