It directly infects the lungs, it's essentially a viral pneumonia. It can kill by reducing lung function or enabling sepsis or other opportunistic infections th

It directly infects the lungs, it's essentially a viral pneumonia. It can kill by reducing lung function or enabling sepsis or other opportunistic infections that can enter through damaged lung tissue. For more information the most recent dozen or so videos by John Campbell at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF9IOB2TExg3QIBupFtBDxg https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF9IOB2TExg3QIBupFtBDxg will take you through material published in peer reviewed medical journals that explain transmission models and an in depth review of some early cases.