Eric TopolFeb 2, 2024

Important discovery related to LongCovid: Fragments of SARS-CoV-2 virus can reassemble into "zombie" complexes (XenoAMP-dsDNA) and induce a major and sustained immune response, affecting healthy, uninfected cells, not seen with common cold coronaviruses

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2300644120

Show threadDucky 🇨🇦
@erictopol So why does Long COVID persist? Won't the body clear out those xeno proteins eventually? Or does the body not garbage-collect proteins? (Or not proteins it thinks are "self"?) Or does this imply that there has to be a reservoir of SARS-CoV-2 in the body somewhere?
Feb 3, 2024 at 9:00pmWeb