There were reports of this phenomenon during the epidemic and this new research appears to confirm the notion that people who have a serious CV-19 infection, serious enough to be hospitalized, will often experience a reawakening of residual infections from other viruses. Viruses appear to have an ability to find a hiding place in the body even after the active infection has been cleared. This has been a serious issue with HIV infections for example, but it appears to be a common problem with most viruses. The study was done among more than 1000 patients hospitalized with CV-19. About half the patients had some other virus that was activated, several known to cause serious disease, such as the Epstein-Barr virus, and some more common and relatively harmless. The viruses also appeared to re-activate on different timelines, with some reappearing early in the CV-19 infection and others later on. The reactivation of a more widespread infection by the other viruses was likely caused by a combination of weakening of the immune system from the CV-19 infection and inflammation resulting from that infection. The reawakened infection likely is responsible for the severity of some CV-19 infections and the dreaded “long CV-19”. (Nature Article)
