Scientists have found new clue to how COVID-19 may cause long COVID : NPR
Key Points:
- Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin studied over 1,100 COVID-19 hospitalized patients across 20 U.S. hospitals.
- Their study, published in Nature, found that COVID-19 infection can reactivate dormant viruses in the body.
- Reactivation includes common viruses potentially linked to long-COVID symptoms.
- The findings may help develop treatments for long-COVID, which impacts millions of Americans.