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Covid-19 is a respiratory illness. It has other systemic effects though.
by sjg007 6y ago
Covid-19 is a respiratory illness. It has other systemic effects though.
- mr_toad 6y agoIt can be a respiratory illness and an immune response. It’s not without precedent; influenza can cause a hyperactive immune response that damages the lungs. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4711683/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4711683/
- sjg007 6y agoCytokines are a response to the illness.
- rurban 6y agoNot even that, the virus itself is no illness. Cykotine causes the main illness, the dead cells in the lungs and elsewhere, which might cause bacterial infections. Of which you eventually die. The virus is just a dirty little unknown virus causing the immunosystem to overreact. In some cases. In most cases not.
- sjg007 6y agoThe virus kills cells.
- rurban 6y agoI've read only about 90% of all COVID-19 papers and I might have missed that one, which says that the virus itself kills cells, but the overwhelming data says the cytokinestorm kills infected cells. The virus is just an annoyance causing the immune system to run amok.