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23.04.2024 - 09:41 / perezhilton.com
A Dutch man has died after battling a very powerful and relentless strain of COVID-19 — for 613 days.
According to TIME and other reports published on Friday, the unidentified man was 72 years old when he passed away late last year. He originally caught the Omicron variant of the coronavirus back in February 2022 — even after receiving multiple COVID vaccine shots in the prior year with the hope that he would be able to withstand the virus. However, per that outlet, he had a rare blood disorder that affected his immune system, and thus, his body was particularly susceptible to COVID.
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News of his 613-day battle and tragic death was first released on Thursday afternoon. The Netherlands’ Centre for Experimental and Molecular Medicine (CEMM) housed within the Amsterdam University Medical Center released their findings on his death last year along with an accompanying statement to the media. In it, they announced that the man suffered through “the longest SARS-CoV-2 [COVID-19] infection duration to date.” Several other cases of infections lasting more than a hundred days have been recorded in the past, as the CEMM notes, but nowhere on earth is there a documented case lasting anywhere near as long as this man’s 613-day battle.
During that time, his infection morphed and changed constantly. It became “a highly mutated novel variant,” according to the CEMM researchers. The virus ended up mutating more than 50 times (!!!) throughout the two-year ordeal, changing and altering itself constantly even as doctors tried desperately to fight it off.
In their report, CEMM researchers noted that the man had myelodysplastic syndrome. Per the Mayo Clinic, that
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