The case occurred in the Netherlands; The patient died at the age of 72, representing the longest case of Covid-19 infection in history so far.
Summary
A 72-year-old Dutch man has recorded the longest case of Covid-19 infection in history, spending 613 days with the disease and contracting more than 50 mutations of the coronavirus. He died in the fall of 2023.
A 72-year-old man has recorded the longest case of Covid-19 infection in history. He had the disease for 613 days and contracted more than 50 mutations of the coronavirus.
According to Time magazine, the patient was Dutch and was first diagnosed in February 2022 with the Ômicron variant. According to researchers from the Center for Molecular and Experimental Medicine at the University of Amsterdam, this was the longest time a person has been infected with the coronavirus.
Again according to the researchers, the patient was vaccinated against Covid, but had a compromised immune system and, therefore, was not able to produce enough white blood cells or antibodies to defeat the disease.
Furthermore, within a short time, the patient had become resistant to Sotrovimab, an antibody that acts against Covid, and this led to his death in the autumn of 2023, due to his weakening health and another underlying blood disease .
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Source: Terra
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