Inflammation and Colvation - What Are the Mechanisms?

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There are two papers that find a similar mechanism, but they look at different things and different cells. Both of the studies did find that the immune cells they were focusing on could be infected. Their studies also pointed to a way in which that infection causes this inflammatory response,. Which leads to severe covid tell me about that mechanism.

Since the beginning of the pandemic there has been a debate amongst researchers about whether the body's immune cells can themselves be infected by SARS-CoV-2. Now two new studies show that they can - and what's more, the work has revealed a new mechanism for the massive inflammatory response seen in severe COVID. In this episode of Coronapod, we dig into the papers, asking why it has taken so long to get an answer to this question? How immune cell infection could lead to severe disease? And whether this new mechanism could provide a new avenue for the development of therapeutics?

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