Thread by @FreitasABR

It is not true that only a subset of the immunocompromised or a subset of the Long Haulers has viral persistence. A preliminary analysis of the papers in this compilation (data up to July 2021) 🧵1/6

https://twitter.com/FreitasABR/status/1407611399593996288

shows 2,669 cases on SARS-CoV-2 persistence, with only 240 cases (9% of the total) showing symptoms in the last positive sample (up to ~7 months from symptoms onset) and only 109 cases (4% of the total) out of those 240 could be classified as Long COVID. 2/6

Of these 2,669 cases of viral persistence, only 113 (4,2% of the total) are immunocompromised.

As of July 2021, more cases of Long COVID should appear in the papers, even so, from what I remember from the papers, this pattern should remain. 3/6

This is overwhelming evidence that the virus persist in anyone who becomes infected and that while a part has already developed symptoms of Long COVID, the rest may still show these or other symptoms. 4/6

While they make everyone think that “the virus persists in a very unfortunate subset of the infected”, hundreds of millions of people who think they are “recovered”, are actually already at risk of developing disabling/life threatening diseases in the coming years 5/6

and hundreds of millions more could join this group. It’s past time for us to have really effective antiviral treatments against SARS-CoV-2. Enough is enough! 6/6

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