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    Feel Like You’ve Run a Marathon? Long COVID Study Suggests Why - Healthrising

    Nice writeup by Cort Johnson on a recent long covid study: https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2022/09/26/long-covid-blood-vessels-marathon/ An excerpt Interresting theory.
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    Identifying a new protein that enables SARS-CoV-2 access into cells

    The entry of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) into human cells is an essential step for virus transmission and development of COVID 19. Although the lung epithelial cells are its initial target, SARS-CoV-2 also can infect endothelial cells. Endothelial cells are the...