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Very important to address these cases though, since it is believed that this is the source of the new variants that we are seeing now. Patients infected for mon
by garmaine 6y ago
Very important to address these cases though, since it is believed that this is the source of the new variants that we are seeing now. Patients infected for months on end provide an ideal darwinian environment for the emergence of immune-escape variants.
- est31 6y agoIndeed you are right, there have been reports of precisely this happening in such patients: https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-01-30/long-term-covid-19-patients-are-incubating-dangerous-new-coronavirus-strains https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2021-01-30/long-term-c... That's unrelated from my general point though. The virus is gone in almost all people reasonably quickly.