Thursday, December 17, 2020

Research strongly suggests COVID-19 virus enters the brain


https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-12/uowh-rss121720.php

 

News Release 17-Dec-2020
University of Washington Health Sciences/UW Medicine

 

More and more evidence is coming out that people with COVID-19 are suffering from cognitive effects, such as brain fog and fatigue.

And researchers are discovering why. The SARS-CoV-2 virus, like many viruses before it, is bad news for the brain. In a study published Dec.16 in Nature Neuroscience, researchers found that the spike protein, often depicted as the red arms of the virus, can cross the blood-brain barrier in mice.

This strongly suggests that SARS-CoV-2, the cause of COVID-19, can enter the brain.


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