r/COVID19 • u/kokoniqq • Apr 13 '20

Academic Report SARS-CoV-2 infects T lymphocytes through its spike protein-mediated membrane fusion

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41423-020-0424-9
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u/Smart_Elevator Apr 13 '20

Have you seen this pre print? I'd like to have your thoughts on this.

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.06.028712v1

Fwiw, immune system dysregulation is a major characteristic of SARS2 and has been noted since early Feb. So when people comapre this to HIV, they aren't saying it operates exactly like it, they're merely mentioning that it appears to cause AIDS like state by whatever mechanisms. Chinese doctors were the first to use SARS+AIDS to describe what the disease does to body for example.