Corona Calls for 04.16.2024 – COVID and Interstitial Macrophages

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A new paper finds that SARS-COV2 infects a type of immune cell the in the lungs called interstitial macrophages, helping to explain the cascade of inflammation, lung damage, and scarring seen in severe COVID-19. The virus enters those cells using a receptor (CD209) different from the ACE2 receptor targeted by current COVID vaccines.
An analysis in the San Jose Mercury News of COVID deaths in California over the past six months shows the death burden has become disportionately old (70% of deaths are people over the age of 75) and White (60%).

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