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COVID-19 Patients Brain Show Damage – Contagionlive.com
The virus may have been cleared by the time of death or viral copy numbers were below the level of detection.
In a recent study conducted by the National Institutes of Health, investigators routinely observed spotted hallmarks of damage caused by thinning and leaky brain blood vessels in tissue samples of patients who died quickly after contracting the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, they did not see any signs of an infection from the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the collected samples, potentially suggesting that the damage was not caused by a direct viral attack.
The findings, published in the New…
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