NYC man's fatal brain disease linked to COVID-19: 'Highly likely'
“Doctors from Mount Sinai Queens’ said it’s ‘highly likely’ COVID contributed to a New York City man developing fatal prion disease.”
Related: "Drawing from recent data on prion disease pathogenesis and immune responses to SARS-CoV-2, we hypothesize that the cascade of systemic inflammatory mediators in response to the virus accelerated the pathogenesis of our patient's prion disease."
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