Patient Infected With Covid for 411 Days Is Finally Cured

(Bloomberg) A kidney transplant patient who suffered with Covid-19 for more than a year has finally been cured. The patient, now aged 59, first tested positive after getting a new kidney in December 2020. The drugs he needed to prevent his body from rejecting the organ weakened his immune system, however, and he couldn’t shake off the virus. He tested positive intermittently until January 2022, despite receiving three vaccination shots. Perplexed doctors conducted a genetic analysis of the virus. They found he had contracted a variant of the original virus first detected in Wuhan, which was dominant in the UK until late 2020, according to details of the case published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. The patient’s own virus also underwent multiple mutations.