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Feb 21 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Our paper on persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections (PIs) is now published in @Nature!
Some key findings:
- PIs are much more common than we thought
- PIs are associated with higher odds of long COVID
- Reinfections with genetically similar viruses are rare nature.com/articles/s4158…
Facing the challenge of distinguishing persistent infections from reinfections in our study, we used rare mutations as a key indicator. If two samples from an individual share the same major variant and rare mutation, then they are very likely to represent the same infection
