Coronavirus <br />Lingers in Organs <br />for Months, New Study Suggests.<br />The study was conducted by researchers with the National Institutes of Health (NIH).<br />It was released online on Dec. 25.<br />The study suggests that COVID-19 can <br />spread from the respiratory tract...<br />... to other organs in the body, including <br />both the brain and heart.<br />[The coronavirus can] disseminate early during infection and infect cells throughout the entire body, Study Authors, via 'The Hill'.<br />Once it has spread, data shows that it can remain in the body for several months.<br />According to researchers, .<br />the study is the "most comprehensive analysis to date" of the ways in which the virus affects the host after infection.<br />Our data support an early viremic phase, which seeds the virus throughout the body following pulmonary infection, Study Authors, via 'The Hill'.<br />In other words, the virus can spread throughout the body in the early stages of infection, <br />even in those who remain asymptomatic.<br />"Long COVID" continues to remain largely <br />a mystery to health professionals.<br />Researchers believe the condition <br />can last for years.<br />Also unknown are the long-term effects the virus may have for those who are vaccinated but experience a breakthrough infection.<br />In order to conduct the study, .<br />researchers had access to the bodies of some who died during the onset of the original strain of the virus prior to the creation of the vaccines
