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What triggers severe COVID? Infected immune cells hold clues

Studies have revealed that infected immune cells prompt a massive inflammatory response.
  1. Smriti Mallapaty
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Immune cells infected with SARS-CoV-2 can trigger a massive inflammatory response that contributes to severe COVID-19, suggest two papers — one published today in Nature, and a preprint posted online on 1 April.

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Nature 604, 231 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00965-z

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  1. Junqueira, C. et al. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04702-4 (2022).

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  2. Sefik, E. et al. Preprint at bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.09.27.461948 (2022).

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