Man's COVID Infection Lasted Nearly 2 Years, Long Enough To Evolve A New Variant

Man's COVID Infection Lasted Nearly 2 Years, Long Enough To Evolve A New Variant

The unfortunate case of a man in The Netherlands who was infected with COVID-19 for more than a year and half is documented in a new report. At 613 days, it’s the longest COVID infection we know about so far. So long, in fact, that the virus had time to evolve into a new variant inside the man’s body. The 72-year-old man had a complex health history. He’d previously received a stem cell transplant to treat a form of blood …