The article mentions the details about how the patient became free from Covid-19 and quotes the researchers.
New Delhi: According to a report in the Washington Post, British researchers recently cured a man who was infected with Covid-19 for 411 days. The details of the particular case was shared in the peer-reviewed academic journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
The article mentions the details about how the patient became free from Covid-19 and quotes the researchers who talked about how the man battled with the virus for over a year.
The patient, aged 59-year-old, had a weak immune system due to a kidney transplant and the use of an immunosuppressant drug.
However, the researchers said this patient’s case was not that of long Covid. The patient is said to have been infected by Covid-19 in December 2020 and kept testing positive till January 2022.
Healthcare experts were surprised and an investigation began on how did the virus persist for such a long time. The investigation was headed by infectious disease physician Luke Blagdon Snell of Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust. The body has been studying immunocompromised people to understand which mutations occur and if new variants evolve over time.
Snell told the Washington Post, “When we looked at his virus, it was something that existed a long time ago – way before Omicron, way before Delta, and even before Alpha. So, it was one of those older, early variants from the beginning of the pandemic.”
According to the article, the researchers found that treatments given to the patient were ineffective because he had a previous strain of the virus. However, as soon as they found the new information, the patient was given the treatment made obsolete by the new variants, which helped.
