I’ve seen some people tweet that #coronaviruses might not be capable of persistence. But over the past decades, coronavirus RNA/protein has been identified in a range of human samples after acute illness, and sometimes connected to chronic disease
2/ For example, this team found coronavirus RNA and/or antigen in both plaque + non-plaque areas of brainstem, cortex, and spinal cord samples obtained from patients with MS: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… 
3/ This team identified a range of DNA/RNA viruses in tissue samples obtained from healthy humans at autopsy. Coronavirus 229-E was found in brain, thyroid, heart, lung, stomach, adrenal gland, skin and blood samples: bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
4/ Commenting on the findings the team wrote: “We found that the human virome includes several #viruses ‘hidden’ by expression/replication in tissues inside the human body without being abundant in the blood.”
5/ Indeed the literature replete with examples of single-stranded #RNA virus persistence, spanning decades of research on samples obtained from living human patients, autopsy studies, and animal studies
6/ This 1986 paper on the topic (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3535644/) states: “Although it would seem difficult for RNA viruses to persist in the #brain under conditions of normal immune defense mechanisms...
7/ ...representatives of at least seven of the established families of RNA #viruses have been shown capable of causing persistent infections under these conditions”
8/ A number of teams have identified enteroviruses (single-stranded RNA viruses) and their proteins in tissue samples obtained from patients with #ME/CFS or ME/CFS-like symptoms: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
9/ For example, this team found enterovirus VP1 protein + RNA in stomach biopsy samples obtained from 165 #ME/CFS patients. 82% of ME/CFS samples stained positive for enterovirus VP1 protein, compared to 20% of control samples: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17872383/
10/ A non-cytolytic form of enteroviral infection was cultured from 5 ME/CFS specimens. Positive staining was found in repeat #stomach biopsy specimens taken from 6 ME/CFS patients at the onset of symptoms and again 2–8 years later
11/ This ME/CFS autopsy study identified positive PCR sequences with similarity to #coxsackievirus B3 in tissue samples from the hypothalamus, brainstem, muscle and heart. No enteroviral sequences were identified in tissue obtained from four controls: acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/00…
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