Category: Viral persistence

Mysterious Driving Factor Behind Long COVID May Have Been Identified

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ByBrendan Crabb, The Conversation Around 5–10% of people with COVID infections go on to experience long COVID, with symptoms lasting three months or more. Researchers have proposed several biological mechanisms to explain long COVID. However, in…[...]

The Impact of Viral Load on the Severity and Outcome Among Patients With COVID-19: A Cross-Sectional Study

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Fatma M. Shire • Shatha Sharbatti • Firas AlNajjar et. al.Published: July 09, 2024, DOI: 10.7759/cureus.64137  Abstract Objectives This study aimed to assess the relationship between illness severity and mortality among COVID-19 patients along with the cycle threshold…[...]

Unraveling long COVID: Here’s what scientists who study the illness want to find out

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September 9, 2023, By Will Stone NPR Newsletter Researchers looking for root causes of long COVID work in the autopsy suite inside the Clinical Center at the National Institute of Health…[...]