Study Links COVID-19 to Reactivation of Dormant Viruses

A study of 1,154 patients by Boston Children’s Hospital found that COVID-19 can trigger the reactivation of 11 dormant viruses within 40 days of hospital admission.

Reactivation of the Anelloviridae family was specifically associated with long-term physical disability and long COVID in the patients analyzed.

Researchers noted that Epstein-Barr and cytomegalovirus reactivated due to systemic inflammation, challenging the theory that such occurrences are solely caused by immunosuppression.