2y ago

Covid incubates in the mucus and goblet cells of the small intestine indefinitely- and seeds spike and virus to the liver and throughout the body.

presse.inserm.fr Long COVID: The Persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in the Mucous Membranes May Be A Factor - Inserm Newsroom

Several months after infection with SARS-CoV-2, some patients still have symptoms: a phenomenon commonly referred to as "long COVID". Teams from Inserm and Université Paris Cité, in collaboration with the University of Minho in Braga (Portugal), have shown that this could be explained biologically b...

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This virus has soo many never before seen mechanisms of action. At what point do we discover another WTF is that component requiring researchers to state it's without a doubt from the elaborate gain-of-function research in labs over the last decade?!
Here's the full paper incase anyone wants to read it: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10061413/

Total speculation, but I can't help but think this has got to be a factor of long COVID.
- It's quite plausible, the fact that it never really clears from the system is pretty concerning.