COVID symptoms: Does COVID cause inflammation in the body? – Deseret News

The novel coronavirus can infect immune cells that will trigger a massive inflammatory response and create severe COVID-19 symptoms, according to new research.

Details: Two new studies one published in the journal Nature and another available on a preprint server found that the immune cells infected by the coronavirus can cause severe inflammation.

What they said: The viruses not only get taken up, but once they get taken up, the virus starts replicating, so that was surprising, research leader Dr. Judith Lieberman, a pediatric immunologist at Boston Childrens Hospital, told CNN.

Worth noting: The researchers found that the coronavirus could not produce new viruses as it spread throughout people, according to Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News.

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