• Zachariah@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Since relatively early in the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a recognition that in some people, SARS-CoV-2 — or at least remnants of the virus — could stay in various tissues and organs for extended periods. This theory is known as “viral persistence”.

    While the long-term presence of residual viral fragments in some people’s bodies is now well established, what remains less certain is whether the live virus itself, not just old bits of virus, is lingering — and if so, whether this is what causes Long COVID.

    This distinction is crucial because live viruses can be targeted by specific antiviral approaches in ways that “dead” viral fragments cannot.

  • maniacalmanicmaniaOP
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    9 days ago

    Does anyone think we could use a aushealth community for these kinds of posts? It’s not news or politics so I didn’t really have anywhere else to post it.

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        9 days ago

        It’s filed under analysis. I think of news as stuff that is ‘breaking news’ even if it’s old news. This is kind of that but it’s also a brief analytical report. Anyway, maybe I’ll just use news next time.

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      9 days ago

      I mean, you could also post this article in the health community of any other instance. It’s not exactly specific to Australia…

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      I’m not sure this instance is active enough to stress about which community a post goes, so I think posting here is fine.