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Dutch Man Dies After Battling COVID For World Record 613 Days -- And 50 Different Mutations

A Dutch man has died after battling a very powerful and relentless strain of COVID-19 -- for 613 days. According to TIME and other reports published on

He originally caught the Omicron variant of the coronavirus back in February 2022 — even after receiving multiple COVID vaccine shots in the prior year with the hope that he would be able to withstand the virus. The Netherlands’ Centre for Experimental and Molecular Medicine(CEMM) housed within the Amsterdam University Medical Center released their findings on his death last year along with an accompanying statement to the media. Per the Mayo Clinic, that is a disorder in which blood cells are poorly formed and fail to replicate themselves efficiently so they may work properly.

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