Several months after infection with SARS-CoV-2, some patients still have symptoms: a phenomenon commonly referred to as "long COVID". Teams from Inserm and Université Paris Cité, in collaboration with the University of Minho in Braga (Portugal), have shown that this could be explained biologically by abnormalities of the immune system associated with the persistence of the virus in the mucous membranes.
We don’t really know what the long term implications are at this point, but could be a reason for people developing long covid. Might also mean that covid stays in the system and could flare up again when the immune system is weakened.
So what does this mean?
We don’t really know what the long term implications are at this point, but could be a reason for people developing long covid. Might also mean that covid stays in the system and could flare up again when the immune system is weakened.