Tuesday 5 July 2022 06:33 PM Cancer patient in Connecticut is infected with COVID-19 for OVER 450 days trends now
An unnamed Connecticut residents has been infected with COVID-19 for well over a year with scientists even finding that virus has mutated multiple times within them.
Researchers at Yale University discovered the patient, who is in their 60s and suffering from a type of lymphoma, after tracing back cases of a believed to be extinct variant back to them.
After further inspection, they found that the person had three different sub-lineages of the virus in their blood stream - signaling they were a vector for mutation.
This is the longest Covid infection discovered by health experts, and it adds to growing evidence that the virus is mutating on immunocompromised individuals before continuing to spread to others.
An unnamed person in their 60s who is also suffering from lymphoma has had an active Covid infection for over 470 days. They also have three different lineages of the virus circulating through their blood (file photo)
The case study is currently available in pre-print on MedRxiv, and is pending peer-review before publishing.
Surveillance of Covid variants in Connecticut, for which Yale is based, discovered that a B.1.517 strain that had not been seen around the world for some time last year was circulating in the area.
The infections were all traced back to one patient living in a part of the state that was not disclosed.
Further inspection found that they were suffering from 'chronic Covid', and had been testing positive for the virus for at least 471 days. At time of publishing Saturday, the patient was still testing positive for the virus.
They also found that
