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The patient suffered from a rare type of white blood cell cancer, which is treatable but incurable, and an immunodeficiency.
A group of researchers from the Netherlands has reported the world’s first death from coronavirus reinfection. To date, only 23 cases of reinfection have been confirmed, but all previous patients had recovered, reports the BNO portal.
This is an 89-year-old woman, who died after contracting COVID-19 for the second time, according to a description by Dutch doctors of a clinical case published on the Oxford University Press website.
According to the scientists, the patient suffered from Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia, a rare type of white blood cell cancer that is treatable but incurable, and an immunodeficiency.
The woman was admitted with a fever and severe cough to a hospital emergency unit earlier this year. She tested positive for coronavirus and was hospitalized for 5 days, after which your symptoms completely disappearedexcept for persistent fatigue.
Almost 2 months later, just two days after starting a new round of chemotherapy, she developed a fever, cough, and dyspnea. When she was admitted to the hospital again, the woman tested positive for coronavirus again, while the antibody tests came back negative on days 4 and 5.
“On day 8, the patient’s condition deteriorated. She died two weeks later,” the researchers detailed.
The team had access to test samples of both infections and confirmed that the genetic makeup of each virus was different to a degree that cannot be explained through ‘in vivo’ evolution.
In late August, virologist Marion Kopmans reported on the first cases of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection in Belgium and the Netherlands. The expert explained that several strains of virus they differ in the genetic code, so that a reinfection is confirmed in the ANR code.
