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This is not true. Viruses can directly kill the cells, by interfering with biological processes, necessary for cellular survival.

• grayhatter 6y ago
  The clarification is helpful, but everything said was in fact true. Omitting this clarification doesn't negate everything else they said.
  • SomeoneFromCA 6y ago
    What the poster said above is incorrect. Covid does produce damage directly to the lung and neural cells, which especially evident as loss of smell and taste. The severe, deadly reaction is indeed of the immune system.
    • nikolay 6y ago
      That's what I saw in many explainer videos, too.