A patient in their 60s kept testing positive for a coronavirus variant that had seemingly gone extinct everywhere else.
. In that work, researchers documented the evolution of the virus over 12 weeks and showed that its descendant infected at least five other people.
“I am pretty well convinced that people with persistent infection are important sources of new variants,” Friedrich says. In fact, doctors and scientists have no idea how common these infections are. “We just don’t really have the numbers,” Simon says. That’s a huge gap for researchers, and something Mount Sinai’sStudying patients with prolonged infections could also tell scientists where SARS-CoV-2 evolution is heading, Friedrich says. Just because the virus evolves within a person doesn’t mean it will spread to other people.
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