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Music lines and stores subject to availability ends 14th of february welcome to the good news ride home for monday june first 2020 i'm jackson bird is covid 19 actually a vascular disease a respiratory one? And is the virus itself getting weaker?

Plus, kicking off Pride Month with a look at how much same-sex weddings have boosted the U.S.

economy. Could human hibernation become a thing? A new exoplanet on our radar that could sustain life? And a

19th century clergyman's advice for dealing with low spirits and isolation. There are two

bits of news that we're making a lot of headlines this weekend that I want to talk about. The first

is a theory that the coronavirus might actually be a blood vessel disease, not a respiratory one.

This is based on a paper published in The Lancet at the end of April, in which scientists discovered

that SARS-CoV-2 can infect the endothelial cells that line the inside of blood vessels.

Quoting elemental,

Endothelial cells protect the cardiovascular system,

and they release proteins that influence everything from blood clotting to the immune response.

In the paper, the scientist showed damage to endothelial cells in the lungs, heart, kidneys, liver, and intestines in people with COVID-19.

Mandiap Mera, medical director of the Brigham and Women's Hospital Heart and Vascular Center and one of the authors of the study explains, quote,

The virus enters the lung, it destroys the lung tissue, and people start coughing.

The destruction of the lung tissue breaks open some blood vessels. Then it starts to infect endothelial cell after endothelial

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