„SARS-CoV-2 viruses binding to ACE-2 receptors on a human cell, the initial stage of COVID-19 infection, conceptual 3D illustration credit: Kateryna Kon / Shutterstock“
„Novel coronavirus attacks and destroys T cells, just like HIV
By Angela Betsaida B. Laguipo, BSNApr 13 2020
The immune system has many components that work together in protecting the body from foreign invaders. One of the most important types of immune cells is T lymphocytes or T cells, a type of white blood cell that acts as the core of adaptive immunity, the system that modifies the immune response to specific pathogens.
T-lymphocytes attack a colony of fungi. Image Credit: UGREEN 3S / Shutterstock
Now, a team from the United States and China revealed evidence that the coronavirus disease, caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), attacks the immune system’s T lymphocytes. The worrying findings highlight the destructive power of the novel coronavirus, which can destroy the immune system, leaving the patient unable to fight off the infection.
The novel coronavirus:
Coronaviruses have been causing problems in humans for a long time. Though many versions of the virus are known to trigger only mild symptoms such as common colds. However, three recent types of coronavirus have caused deadly diseases – the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in China in 2002, the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in Saudi Arabia in 2012, and the current global pandemic, the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), which first emerged in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, in China December 2019.
The impact of the previous coronavirus outbreaks in 2002 and 2012 has been mild compared with the mayhem unleashed by the SARS-CoV-2. Within only a few months, the novel coronavirus has prompted most countries to go into lockdown, dwindling economies, and overwhelming health care systems with the more than 2 million people infected.
… Now, the researchers’ surprise discovery has shed light on the potency of the novel coronavirus is killing powerful immune cells, which are supposed to kill the virus instead.
Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (green) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (purple), isolated from a patient sample. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Credit: NIAID
Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (green) heavily infected with SARS-COV-2 virus particles (purple), isolated from a patient sample. Image captured and color-enhanced at the NIAID Integrated Research Facility (IRF) in Fort Detrick, Maryland.
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The researchers from the Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and the New York Blood Centre, has studied the virus’s action on T-lymphocyte cell lines. T lymphocytes or T cells work by identifying and eliminating foreign invaders in the body.
To arrive at their findings, published in the journal of Cellular & Molecular Immunology, the team captured a cell infected by the virus, penetrated the membrane, and injected toxic chemicals into the cell. After this, the chemicals killed both the virus and infected cells by tearing them into pieces.
Surprisingly, the team has found that when the coronavirus and the T cell came into contact with each other, the T cell became prey to the coronavirus, wherein a structure in the spike of the coronavirus triggered the attachment of a viral envelope and the cell membrane. After, the genes of the virus entered the T cell and overwhelmed it, took it hostage, and deactivated its ability to protect the body.
The team then tried to do the same with the SARS virus, and another coronavirus, but these pathogens were not able to infect T cells. The researchers suspect that the SARS virus, which caused an outbreak in 2002 to 2003, has a lack of a membrane fusion function. The virus can only infect cells that have a particular receptor protein called the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). T cells contain only a few ACE2 receptor proteins.
It is an important discovery, knowing the effect of the SARS-CoV-2 on T cells, since this may show why the disease is spreading so quickly, and infecting so many across the globe. It also explains why certain vulnerable populations are at a high risk of dying from the infection, including those who are more than 65, those who are immunocompromised, and those with underlying medical conditions like lung disease, heart disease, diabetes, and hypertension.
Further investigation shows that patients who died from COVID-19 had damage to their bodies similar to both SARS and HIV. Also, the team found that unlike HIV that replicates faulty T cells, the coronavirus does not replicate, showing that the T cells and the virus may end up dying together.
Source:
COVID-19 Dashboard by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). (2020). https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html
Journal reference:
Xia, S., Liu, M., Wang, C., Xu, W., Lan, Q., Feng, S., Lu, L. et al. (2020). Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 (previously 2019-nCoV) infection by a highly potent pan-coronavirus fusion inhibitor targeting its spike protein that harbors a high capacity to mediate membrane fusion. Cellular & Molecular Immunology.“
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OUT OF SHADOWS OFFICIAL
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„OUT OF SHADOWS OFFICIAL
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•Apr 10, 2020“
„So we’ve all heard the term conspiracy theory personally for me I’ve never really had time to get into that because frankly I’m working all the time and I don’t have the time to look into Bigfoot or Aliens… or 9/11 conspiracy or the JFK assassination, it’s just it’s not anything that I really have any backstory on but the one thing that you have a lot of backstory on the one thing I do know a lot about is Hollywood.“
„The CIA is funneling information in to Hollywood, Hollywood is putting out out in the movies and the population
believes it.“
„Motion pictures are used as psychological warfare, why would they stop doing? In no time has the CIA enagaged in any political actrivity or any intelligence activity, it was not
approved at the highest level. Allen Dulles groomed and recruited Ian Fleming and Dulles and the CIA actually helped
Fleming write his books and paint the CIA in a favorable light and they als, Dulles helped produce Thunderball, to
make the CIA and Agents look like honorable you know cool people the CIA actually helped him write the books and
write the script for that movie and then the president of MPAA was actually providing intelligence to the CIA as an
operative in in that position in Hollywood.“
„Which means Mockingbird continues today when was the last time you’ve seen a mainstream media outlet do a serious
1investigative report on the actions of the CIA, there’s a reason for that.“
„outofshadows.org The Out Of The Shadows documentary lifts the mask on how the mainstream media & Hollywood manipulate & control the masses by spreading propaganda throughout their content. Our goal is to wake up the general public by shedding light on how we all have been lied to & brainwashed by a hidden enemy with a sinister agenda. This project is the result of two years of blood, sweat, and tears by a team of woke professionals. It’s been independently produced and funded and is available on many different platforms for free for anyone to watch.“
„There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow on our historic position of freedom and I feel we need to correct it . (Harry S. Truman)(1963)“
„Senator Moynihan proposed a bill to Dismantle The CIA. Introduced it twice, the second time was 1995, ironically one year later in 1996 the CIA established the entertainment liaison office which was specifically penetrated into Hollywood.“
„So the CIA was and is in Hollywood was and is contributing to Hollywood productions and that manipulation.“
„I never actually considered that the CIA had an office in Hollywood.“
„YOKEDup1: 3 days ago: The mainstream media is absolutely the enemy of the people.“
„Vovan: 4 hours ago: American people, Russian people with You! Brothers and Sisters, destroy The deep state!“
„Jayden Johnson: 2 hours ago: millions of views and not trending. Microsoft pulls ad that has this satanist in it after this video is released. Talk about a testament to truth.
„I realized that it was more of a machine and it was more of they just needed content to put out there for the
masses. I stopped really watching TV, I stopped really watching movies and one of the reasons why I stopped watching movies as I got into my research and what’s going
on in the world right now and all the corruptness and all of the plot twists of reality and I started realizing that
reality is twenty times more interesting than Hollywood.“
„I loved all of those movies but now they’re meaningless,
because I know what’s going on right now actually has purpose and has a meaning and there are consequences and once this
story is told on what’s happening in the world right now and and all of the powers that be battling each other it
will be the greatest story ever told.“
„How the CIA helped Disney buy all the swampland
in Florida well why the hell on earth would they do that?“
„Washington DC is definitely in Hollywoo. I have seen documents of the DoD and the CIA right into the studio
heads guiding them in a certain fashion.“
„Allen Dulles CIA director was associate of Heinrich Himmler of the Third Reich.“
„So what Dulles proceeded to do when the Third Reich was brought down was he secretly brought all of the top Nazi
their files that he gave to Harry Truman making them look like there were no war crimes, they brought these Nazi
scientists into the CIA to work for the CIA and that includes the human experiments they conducted on .. men, women and children and the psychological studies that these Nazi scientists had done, the CIA was using their expertise for these programs through Operation Paperclip and this Nazi,. much of it occult beliefs that the CIA adopted and actually put these people on their payroll, one of the programs that came out of Operation Paperclip was MKULTRA, now MKULTRA is a
very complex program that dealt with human experiments and mind manipulation.“
„Capture the minds of the people and feed them false history the CIA’s funneling information in to Hollywood Hollywood is
putting out out in the movies and the population believes it.“
„I think that Hollywood is teaching bad morals to
the youth of this country as well as adults desensitizing of violence to the masses you can’t deny that.“
„I give the CIA a total credit for sponsoring and
initiating the entire consciousness movement counterculture events of the 1960s. (Timothy Leary)“
„History will judge the role of the CIA and other intelligence agencies in unwittingly contributing to the
counterculture of the 60s for their intense interest in LSD and other hallucinogenics, but for the moment at least the argument can be made that the CIA helped usher in the Age of Aquarius.“
„We learned a lot about human nature in the bedroom, we started to pick up knowledge that could be used in
operations, there would be victims in all of this, as
one agency memo says: we have no answer to the moral question. That’s one of the CIA’s favorite tactic are honey pots and I work with CIA psychologists and they’re dirty.“
„Look, it’s pretty simple if you think about it to control the population you have to control the people messaging
the population. some of these stars have twenty, thirty million followers, that’s more followers than CNN, Fox, ABC NBC, these people have to be controlled, they can’t just go off message and start saying whatever they want to say, they
have to be somewhat reigned in, they have to be controlled or they do not get the platform to have the voice that they
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North Carolina woman gets coronavirus despite staying home for three weeks
„North Carolina woman gets coronavirus despite staying home for three weeks“
Victoria Nissen: so is it in the air? As in Chemtrails?
Nadine Nelson: Incubation is up to a month and yes it´s also Airborne, so maybe neighbours.
Julia Rose: on the shopping.
Tim Casey: She had an autoimmune disorder, anyone with an autoimmune disorder will test positive for covid-19.
The test for covid-19, tests for enzymes realised from cell death. So autoimmune diseases, stress, cancer, heart
disease, and many other things will test positive.
Danielle Rae: There is some BS here. So let’s start living again and all get it.
If we die, we die.. fuck it at this point.
Lori Dalton: Try reading the article. She let someone deliver groceries she didn’t know, who had it. Then she didn’t take it out of the bags or clean it, before she brought it inside.
Greg R. Dietrich: Ahh! the ny post.
Eric Lopez: That’s at least what she told her husband and the media.
Jody Bacon Sanders: 5G.
Puti Warbrick: False positive test.
Krisztina Halász: Coronavirus is the common cold. New strand is covid19.
So. Every covid19 is coronavirus, but not every corona is covid! But test can only confirm the common coronavirus..
So you can be positive, but not have the new strand!
„A North Carolina coronavirus patient said she was infected despite staying home for the three weeks leading up to her diagnosis last Thursday, a report said.
“This is the sickest I’ve ever been and it’s the most scared I’ve ever been,” Rachel Brummert told WCNC. “I’m absolutely terrified.”
Brummert, who suffers from an autoimmune disorder, told the outlet that she last left her Charlotte home for a trip to the pharmacy in mid-March.
Because of her underlying condition, Brummert, as a precautionary measure, had kept her distance from others, including her husband, who is living in a separate room.
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On one occasion, a woman who has since tested positive for the illness dropped off groceries on Brummert’s doorstep, the report said.
While Brummert didn’t come into contact with the woman, she said she retrieved the bags of food from her porch without gloves.
“I really thought I was doing everything right,” Brummert said.
“I’ve never had anything like this before,” she said. “I’ve had the flu. This is not the flu. It’s a whole other monster.”“
Source: https://nypost.com/2020/04/13/nc-woman-gets-covid-19-despite-staying-home-for-three-weeks/
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Loss of smell and taste validated as COVID-19 symptoms in patients with high recovery rate
„Loss of smell and taste validated as COVID-19 symptoms in patients with high recovery rate“
„Neuroscience News
14 hours ago
Summary: Study confirms sensory loss associated with taste and smell is strongly linked to early coronavirus infection. Based on the findings, people who report olfactory or taste loss are ten times more likely to have COVID-19 than other infections. Patients reported their sensory loss to be profound rather than mild. Encouragingly, the rate of sensory recovery was high, with patients reporting a return of normal smell and taste function within two to four weeks, which matches the time of disease recovery. Researchers also found people who reported sore throats more often tested negative for COVID-19.
Source: UCSD“
„Loss of smell and taste has been anecdotally linked to COVID-19 infections. In a study published April 12, 2020 in the journal International Forum of Allergy & Rhinology, researchers at UC San Diego Health report the first empirical findings that strongly associate sensory loss with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
“Based on our study, if you have smell and taste loss, you are more than 10 times more likely to have COVID-19 infection than other causes of infection. The most common first sign of a COVID-19 infection remains fever, but fatigue and loss of smell and taste follow as other very common initial symptoms,” said Carol Yan, MD, an otolaryngologist and head and neck surgeon at UC San Diego Health. “We know COVID-19 is an extremely contagious virus. This study supports the need to be aware of smell and taste loss as early signs of COVID-19.”
Yan and colleagues surveyed 1,480 patients with flu-like symptoms and concerns regarding potential COVID-19 infection who underwent testing at UC San Diego Health from March 3 through March 29, 2020. Within that total, 102 patients tested positive for the virus and 1,378 tested negative. The study included responses from 59 COVID-19-positive patients and 203 COVID-19-negative patients.
Yan said the study demonstrated the high prevalence and unique presentation of certain sensory impairments in patients positive with COVID-19. Of those who reported loss of smell and taste, the loss was typically profound, not mild. But encouragingly, the rate of recovery of smell and taste was high and occurred usually within two to four weeks of infection.
“Our study not only showed that the high incidence of smell and taste is specific to COVID-19 infection, but we fortunately also found that for the majority of people sensory recovery was generally rapid,” said Yan. “Among the Covid-19 patients with smell loss, more than 70 percent had reported improvement of smell at the time of survey and of those who hadn’t reported improvement, many had only been diagnosed recently.”“
But encouragingly, the rate of recovery of smell and taste was high and occurred usually within two to four weeks of infection. The image is in the public domain.
Sensory return typically matched the timing of disease recovery. Interestingly, the researchers found that persons who reported experiencing a sore throat more often tested negative for COVID-19.
In an effort to decrease risk of virus transmission, UC San Diego Health now includes loss of smell and taste as a screening requirement for visitors and staff, as well as a marker for testing patients who may be positive for the virus.
Other known symptoms of COVID-19 include fever, fatigue, cough and difficulty breathing. Respondents in Yan’s study were most often persons with milder forms of COVID-19 infection who did not require hospitalization or intubation. The findings, she said, underline the importance of identifying early or subtle symptoms of COVID-19 infection in people who may be at risk of transmitting the disease as they recuperate within the community.
“It is our hope that with these findings other institutions will follow suit and not only list smell and taste loss as a symptom of COVID-19, but use it as a screening measure for the virus across the world,” Yan said.
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Source: UCSD
Media Contacts: Jeanna Vazquez – UCSD
Image Source: The image is in the public domain.
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International Forum of Allergy and Rhinology
Abstract
Long-term memory performance depends upon gating system
Association of chemosensory dysfunction and Covid‐19 in patients presenting with influenza‐like symptoms
Background
Rapid spread of the SARS‐CoV‐2 virus and concern for viral transmission by ambulatory patients with minimal to no symptoms underline the importance of identifying early or subclinical symptoms of Covid‐19 infection. Two such candidate symptoms include anecdotally reported loss of smell and taste. Understanding the timing and association of smell/taste loss in Covid‐19 may help facilitate screening and early isolation of cases.
Methods
A single‐institution, cross‐sectional study evaluating patient‐reported symptoms with a focus on smell and taste was conducted using an internet‐based platform on adult subjects who underwent testing for Covid‐19. Logistic regression was employed to identify symptoms associated with Covid‐19 positivity.
Results
A total of 1480 patients with influenza‐like symptoms underwent Covid‐19 testing between March 3 through 29, 2020. Our study captured 59 of 102 (58%) Covid‐19‐positive patients and 203 of 1378 (15%) Covid‐19‐negative patients. Smell and taste loss were reported in 68% (40/59) and 71% (42/59) of Covid‐19‐positive subjects, respectively, compared to 16% (33/203) and 17% (35/203) of Covid‐19‐negative patients..
Conclusions
In ambulatory individuals with influenza‐like symptoms, chemosensory dysfunction was strongly associated with Covid‐19 infection and should be considered when screening symptoms. Most will recover chemosensory function within weeks paralleling resolution of other disease‐related symptoms.“
Source: https://neurosciencenews.com/smell-taste-covid-19-recovery-16149/