<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Dec 20, 2020, at 20:42, Kim Davalos <<a href="mailto:kdavalos@sonic.net" class="">kdavalos@sonic.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Stay home.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/california-hospital-covid-capacity/" class="">https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/california-hospital-covid-capacity/</a> <br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">When I spoke to my doctor in April or May about *still being sick* from January, she was convinced there was zero chance I was still harboring the virus. The traditional view is that it’s Casper (the friendly ghost) by then, also that coronaviruses don’t survive the human gastrointestinal tract, which is why we experience COVID as more respiratory than not.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Science says I may have been correct.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.03.367391v1" class="">https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.03.367391v1</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"Analysis of intestinal biopsies obtained from asymptomatic individuals 3 months after COVID-19 onset, using immunofluorescence, electron tomography or polymerase chain reaction, revealed persistence of SARS-CoV-2 in the small bowel of 7 out of 14 volunteers.”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">THREE MONTHS for half of (admittedly a small sample of) *asymptomatic* patients. Still actively replicating virus, in a place we previously thought coronaviruses couldn’t get to.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Stay home.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Deirdre</div></body></html>