Does COVID Mess With Your DNA?

As more and more are infected with COVID-19, there's a growing group of people who have what's called Long COVID, meaning they still have symptoms for weeks or months after getting sick. While we still don't know for sure the cause of long COVID, there's a growing body of research that long COVID may be the result of the virus messing with people's DNA.

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Sources:

Sources:
Swedish studies:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15592294.2022.2089471
https://clinicalepigeneticsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13148-022-01398-1
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/981144
US studies:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13148-021-01102-9
https://clinicalepigeneticsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13148-022-01313-8#MOESM1
Norwegian study:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-15467-1
General review on long COVID:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9132392/
Other:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8415618/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5371896/
https://www.improvediagnosis.org/publications/improvedx-january-2022/understanding-me-cfs-and-long-covid-as-post-viral-conditions/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5371896/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15592294.2022.2089471 https://clinicalepigeneticsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13148-022-01398-1
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13148-021-01102-9 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13148-021-01102-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-15467-1

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