Covid Patient’s Infection Lasts Record 613 Days and Spawns New Mutations
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Covid Patient’s Infection Lasts Record 613 Days and Spawns New Mutations
Bloomberg News,
(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 …