AFTER 3 YEARS OF THE COVID PANDEMIC WE REAFFIRM THAT THE MAIN CAUSE OF LONG COVID IS VIRAL PERSISTENCE
And something similar happens in ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Autoimmune Diseases and POTS.
This January 18, 2023, a study has been published in which a group of patients with Persistent Symptoms of COVID died without treatment for Viral Persistence.
In the autopsies it was confirmed that they did have COVID-19. They still harbored virus-infected cells inside their lungs.
Here is the link to the study in question:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/path.6035
In the image we put the initial paragraph of the Discussion of this study.
The patients had multiple Negative PCR tests for SARS CoV-2, some had more than 10 PCRs, which included, in addition to PCR by Nasopharygeal Swab, PCR of Bronchoalveolar Lavages (BAL), which also gave false negative results, and this for up to 300 days, counted from your last Positive PCR result.
They were thought to be free of infection, but the patients continued to have symptoms and eventually died.
In the majority of reported cases, pneumonia was the cause of death. In the autopsies, the post-mortem analysis confirmed through the pathological examination of the lungs that the majority died with Diffuse Alveolar Damage (DAD), which is a characteristic finding of Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS), which is the lung disease that occurs in severe and critical acute COVID.
To confirm the presence of virus-infected cells, antibodies that specifically detect the spike and nucleocapsid proteins of SARS-CoV-2 were used by immunohistochemistry (IHC).
For our part, 3 years after the start of the COVID pandemic, we reaffirm that the main cause of Long COVID or PACS is Viral Persistence.
It should not be considered that it is a Post-Infectious disease or Sequelae.
As in the reported cases, there is an active SARS CoV-2 infection, and there are often co-infections.
In the Table of the link, Persistent Intracellular Infection is presented as the main CAUSE of Long COVID or PACS, the Effects or consequences being the various organic changes and dysfunctions that this infection causes.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355949081
Thus, as long as the clinical symptoms of COVID persist, there is a persistent and active infection by SARS CoV-2.
Something similar occurs in ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Autoimmune Diseases and POTS, which we consider to be mostly caused by persistent intracellular infections that mainly affect the blood vessels.
This is detailed in the following table:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355081782
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Great article.
It looks like the first step should be getting rid of the virus in the gut, if needed using antibiotics to get rid of the gut bacteria that the virus infects as a bacteriophage.
The second step should be getting rid of the virus inside monocytes that can take the virus anywhere in the body.
Can you please help us with some protocols to achieve that, Gustavo?
As someone who has lived with M.E for 30 years, and fibromyalgia since 2011, my health has since deteriorated with repeat infections of this viral pathogen over the last 6 years. With possible EBV reactivation and persistent virus symptoms I now have a lung infection. I’m about to follow the recent advice with using the Chinese herbal medicine after a course of antibiotics. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I often feel like I can’t breathe and have so many scary symptoms I think I’m going to die or will die soon. I’ve been waking with weakness in arms and shallow breathing often too, laboured. This for several years. I was physically sick with recent infection again and am treating gut issues with a post biotic then following with a probiotic. I started a Candida diet 2 months ago due to damp house and possibly have Lyme activating. Saving for EBV testing with Armin. Feel I need help to clear the virus but could be persistent in tissues/gut/reproductive system. Going to follow the gou teng/ uncaria rhynchophylla herbal next.
Our NHS is clueless and unhelpful & unaware of the science.