A new study suggests the coronavirus can infect your intestinal tract for weeks and months after you've cleared the bug from your lungs. This could explain why some COVID patients develop GI symptoms like abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
, said senior researcher Dr. Ami Bhatt, an associate professor of medicine and genetics at Stanford University.
About 4% still were shedding viral RNA in their feces seven months out from their initial diagnosis, researchers found. But the lingering presence of COVID in the gut does suggest one potential influence for long-haul disease, she said. "These data add to the notion that the cells in the intestine may themselves be involved with COVID viral infection, and they could potentially be contributors to some of the symptoms -- abdominal pain, nausea, kind of just intestinal distress -- that can be one aspect of long COVID," he said.
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