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> i.e. are people getting brain damage from COVID itself or as a result of uncontrolled fever? Covid kills lung and blood vessel cells by depleting their ACE2
by Alex3917 6y ago
> i.e. are people getting brain damage from COVID itself or as a result of uncontrolled fever?
Covid kills lung and blood vessel cells by depleting their ACE2 receptors. So if you develop a fever as one of your Covid symptoms, whatever inflammation is caused by that may well be only a small fraction of the total inflammation caused by the disease.