Coronapod: 'viral ghosts' support idea that SARS-CoV-2 reservoirs could be behind long COVID
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🗓️ 13 May 2022
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Millions of people around the world have been left managing the complex and amorphous syndrome that is long COVID. But the underlying cause of this myriad of symptoms is not clear. One hypothesis is that the virus is able to find a safe haven in the body from which it can bide its time and potentially re-emerge - a viral reservoir. Now researchers studying long COVID have found evidence of SARS-CoV-2 in a series of organs around the body, most notably the gut, months after the infection appears to have been cleared from the respiratory system. While there is still a long way to go before the reservoir hypothesis can be confirmed, these data provide compelling new support for the theory. In this episode of Coronapod, we discuss how the studies were carried out, why the question of long COVID's cause is so difficult to crack, and what more needs to be done to get a firm answer.
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| 1:02.2 | Welcome to Corona Pod. |
| 1:05.6 | In this show, we're going to bring you nature's take on the latest COVID-19 developments. |
| 1:12.2 | And we'll be speaking to experts around the world about research during the pandemic. We're entering a new era now. We've |
| 1:20.1 | new COVID strategies. There's some new unknowns and we've got a vaccine. |
| 1:30.1 | Hello and welcome to CoronaPod. |
| 1:33.9 | I'm Noah Baker and joining me this week is Nature's Finest Heidi Ledford. |
| 1:34.5 | Heidi, how are you? |
| 1:35.9 | I'm fine, thank you. |
| 1:38.2 | You've not been on the show for a little while now. |
| 1:41.9 | And we've brought you back on to talk about something that I believe we've said before we're going to come back to this, which is long COVID. |
| 1:44.8 | And specifically what we're talking about here is what you've described as ghosts lingering in |
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