Covid kills Dutch man after virus mutates 50 times in his body in 613 days

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Making it the longest recorded Covid-19 infection, a 72-year-old man died due to a weakened immune system..

The patient, who got shots of COVID vaccines before he contacted the infection, saw the virus mutate more than 50 times in his body...

A Dutch man suffered the longest recorded COVID-19 infection, spanning a staggering 613 days, before he died in the fall of 2023, a study by researchers of the Amsterdam University Medical Center has revealed...

The 72-year-old unnamed man was already suffering with a blood disease, before he got infected with Covid-19 in February 2022, leading to a compromised immune system, reported TIME..

The case study of the 72-year-old man by researchers of the Amsterdam University Medical Center, will be presented at the ESCMID Global Congress in Barcelona next week...

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