Covid virus in GI tract for months

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Covid virus in GI tract for months

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Eric Topol on twitter
Gastrointestinal Covid
cell.com/med/fulltext/S…
—13% of a cohort w/ mild-to-moderate Covid shed #SARSCoV2 RNA in💩at 4 months, 4% at 7 months
—the GI tract may be infected after the respiratory infection has cleared
@MedCellPress

I wonder what effect this will have on MC?
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Re: Covid virus in GI tract for months

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Thanks for that post. That may be the reason for why most MC patients who happen to catch Covid have so much difficulty getting their MC back into remission.

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It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
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