'You can start thinking about getting COVID as almost as an accelerant to aging,' the lead researcher warned. FOX13
President Biden had to wait a while because he was infected with COVID-19 over the summer.During the onset of the pandemic, many doctors were baffled by the variety of harmful effects caused by COVID-19 — originally thought to be just a respiratory illness.
Analyzing data from millions of Americans, his team found that kidneys from patients with long COVID accelerated in age by an average of four years in the span of just one. Dr. Al-Aly says we’re seeing COVID-19 evolve similarly to how we originally first saw cancer evolve in its early forms. Back then, we didn’t have the understanding of the different forms of cancer that we do now. Later down the line, we may be able to classify the different forms of long COVID.
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