Posted on 04/19/2024 6:30:56 AM PDT by logi_cal869
An elderly man spent almost two years infected with Covid, scientists revealed as they warned of possible dangerous mutations.
The unnamed 72-year-old, from Amsterdam, was immunocompromised due to previous stem cell transplants. He had the virus for 613 days before he died, during which time the virus mutated around 50 times.
It is the longest Covid infection duration to date, according to the scientists, although several cases of hundreds of days have been previously recorded.
Although healthy Covid infected patients can clear the virus within a period of days to weeks, an immunocompromised person can develop a persistent infection while the virus replicates and evolves. For instance, it is thought that the initial emergence of the Omicron variant originated in an immunocompromised person, highlighting the importance of closely monitoring such patients.
In a report to be presented at the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases’ global conference in Barcelona next week, researchers said the pensioner was admitted to the Amsterdam University Medical Centre in February 2022 with a Covid infection, believed to be of the Omicron variant.
His immunocompromised status was further complicated by the development of a post-transplant lymphoma, for which he received a targeted cancer medication that depletes all available B-cells – including those that normally produce the Covid antibodies.
The man had received multiple Covid vaccinations without any measurable antibody response upon being admitted to hospital. After 21 days, the virus developed an antibody-resisting mutation before doctors discovered his immune system was incapable of clearing the virus.
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January 2020.
And no, I should not have gotten the vaccine. It would have damaged me more. Several doctors are glad I didn’t get it.
The Key Fact was the Virus Mutated at least 50 times. My guess it was more than that since early on I read that the Covid Virus mutates once every 10 hours. So it did not matter what vaccine you took, it was already obsolete when you got it and did nothing.
No.
The key fact is that even after mutating at least 49 times...
...the virus didn’t kill him.
True.
I have treated one such patient with combination remdesivir and Paxlovid x 20 days with cure, and a second such case has been reported.
The “official” course of both of these medicines is too short in the presence of severe immunocompromise.
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