Ryan I take issue with your rash conclusion that #COVID-19 cannot survive in a persistent form in certain #LongCovid patients, and it's unfair to say that people studying the topic or discussing the possibility of COVID-19 chronic persistence are spreading rumors or causing harm!
2/ First, there is no way for you to *know* that #COVID-19 cannot persist in a latent/chronic form in certain patients. The #virus has only existed for a short time, meaning few studies on persistence have even been able to be conducted
3/ Second, have you noted all the cell types/body sites #COVID-19 can infect? (below). Have you obtained samples from all such sites in #LongCovid cases + searched for the #virus in a persistent form? (studies of cerebrospinal fluid, tissue biopsy etc?) nature.com/articles/s4159…
4/ Third, possible persistence of #coronaviruses in the central #nervous system has been documented for years. Eg: coronaviruses have been detected in autopsied brain tissue/CSF from MS patients (jvi.asm.org/content/74/19/…), or in autopsied HIV brains (journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…)
5/ Or, HCoV-OC43 has been shown capable of persistently infecting immortalized human #glial cells…or in oligodendrocytes, astrocytes, neurons: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
6/ And those are just examples off the top of my head. I ask that you be more open-minded about potential #COVID-19 persistence in #LongCovid cases. Taking a research topic “off the table” prematurely is simply unfair
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