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‘Visionary’ study finds inflammation, evidence of Covid virus years after infectionPhoto of cells infected with SARS-CoV-2. The reds and greens in the image represent cells infected with the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. Photo: Alberto Domingo Lopez-Munoz, Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID/NIH.
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‘Visionary’ study finds inflammation, evidence of Covid virus years after infection

Published July 3, 2024

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Published by: STAT
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By Isabella Cueto

Remember when we thought Covid was a two-week illness? So does Michael Peluso, assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

He recalls the rush to study acute Covid infection, and the crush of resulting papers. But Peluso, an HIV researcher, knew what his team excelled at: following people over the long term.

So they adapted their HIV research infrastructure to study Covid patients. The LIINC program, short for “Long-term Impact of Infection with Novel Coronavirus,” started in San Francisco at the very beginning of the pandemic. By April 2020, the team was already seeing patients come in with lingering illness and effects of Covid — in those early days still unnamed and unpublicized as long Covid. They planned to follow people’s progress for three months after they were infected with the virus.

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Covid-19 Found in People’s Blood Months After Infection

Published April 26, 2024

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Published by: Psychology Today
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By Alison Escalante, M.D.

Key points

  • A quarter of people had Covid-19 viral proteins in their blood up to 14 months after infection.
  • These proteins in the blood indicate that SARS-CoV-2 keeps living in tissue reservoirs.
  • The study used a research-grade test that is not available outside of research labs.
  • The strongest evidence to date that Covid-19 persists in the body provides an important clue to Long Covid.
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COVID Patient’s Infection Lasts Record 613 Days—and Accumulated Over 50 Mutations

Published April 18, 2024

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Published by: Time
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By Jason Gale / Bloomberg

A Covid-19 patient with a weakened immune system incubated a highly mutated novel strain over 613 days before succumbing to an underlying illness, researchers in the Netherlands found.

The patient, a 72-year-old man with a blood disorder, failed to mount a strong immune response to multiple Covid shots before catching the omicron variant in February 2022. Detailed analysis of specimens collected from more than two dozen nose and throat swabs found the coronavirus developed resistance to sotrovimab, a Covid antibody treatment, within a few weeks, scientists at the University of Amsterdam’s Centre for Experimental and Molecular Medicine said. It later acquired over 50 mutations, including some that suggested an enhanced ability to evade immune defenses, they said.

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Long COVID: The hunt for causes and cures

Published September 11, 2023

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Published by: Chemical and Engineering News
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By Shi En Kim

Hannah Davis misses her old self. Like so many people around the world, she has seen her life upended by long COVID, which has made many once-routine activities impossible. The 32-year-old has stopped working at her job in the field of machine learning and generative models. It’s too cognitively taxing; the lights from display monitors are disorienting. Merely standing up from a sitting position causes her heart rate to shoot to 170 beats per minute, the equivalent of doing a good jog.

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