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my wife has a friend who sent Dolly Parton a painting she made & a letter explaining how much Dolly's music meant to her while she was transitioning. Dolly responded to it personally & paid for her top surgery. Sounds like an urban legend but it's real. I think we're going to more stories like this.
![🦠 COVID-19 can reactivate dormant viruses in the body, confirms new research in Nature. Researchers ran advanced analyses of data from multiple biological layers on 1,154 people hospitalized with COVID-19 before mid-2021 and found significant reactivation of viruses in the herpes and Anelloviridae families. “Nearly half of people … had a virus that they were already carrying wake up,” a co-author told Science. “This happens [even] in people whose immune systems are otherwise normal.” While reactivated viruses have been found in prior studies on Long COVID, the researchers caution that their new results do not prove causation. “Our results raise the possibility that viral reactivation may contribute to the development of severe acute COVID-19 and Long COVID,” the authors concluded.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:age5xvis2s2vy5qiz2tjxoc6/bafkreiawe5juizd5x3kk7g3exclrnlc3bowmh2woifxxz3iul5kpinum2e)
