COVID-19 COULD CAUSE A DIFFERENT DISEASE IN PREVIOUSLY HEALTHY PEOPLE
The coronaviruses responsible for the current and previous outbreaks share a similar way of getting into cells. The now-familiar protein spikes on the surface of the virus attach to ACE2 receptors are abundant in lung, kidney and islet cells in the pancreas. It is proposed that once in islets, Covid-19 disrupts normal cell function leading to abnormalities in the pathways that maintain blood glucose through insulin secretion. It is also possible that cell invasion leads to acute inflammation that kills islet cells.
Covid-19 could cause a different disease in previously healthy peopleGUT REACTION
Children and young adults are less likely to develop symptomatic Covid-19, although infection readily occurs in young people with equally high viral loads in the airway, suggesting that they can certainly infect others. In contrast, people of older age and those with pre-existing chronic conditions are highly at risk and very likely develop symptomatic, severe disease.If we consider the gradient of the severity of the disease, children are at one end, and the elderly and patients with chronic conditions are at the other end.
HOW YOUR INTESTINES MAY AFFECT THE SEVERITY OF COVID-19
I found the above linked site intriguing and full of information. It has much more information than the other link in my previous post with the same title on many aspects of COVID-19. Well worth exploring. Sorry for having to edit this post to catch the correct link. The website has much on it.
WHO IS PREDISPOSED TO SERIOUS COVID-19?
WHAT CONDITIONS ARE LINKED TO SEVERE COVID-19?
HOW DOES THE BODY FIGHT COVID-19 INFECTION?
A BASIC HUMAN BEHAVIOR HAS BEEN UPENDED BY COVID-19
THE ORIGINAL SARS VIRUS DISAPPEARED. HERE’S WHY COVID-19 WON’T DO THE SAME.
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