Coronapod: Infected immune cells hint at cause of severe COVID
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🗓️ 15 April 2022
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
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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| 0:59.0 | Welcome to CoronaPod. |
| 1:05.6 | In this show, we're going to bring you nature's take on the latest COVID-19 developments. |
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| 1:35.4 | I'm Noah Baker, and joining me this week is senior reporter in our Asia-Pacific Bureau, Smriti Malapati. |
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| 1:40.4 | What we're going to talk about today is severe COVID. |
| 1:44.9 | Now, we'll get on to the severe COVID part in a minute, but I want to kind of build this story up because there's quite a lot of layers. And the first driver of this story is a seemingly |
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