Coronavirus infects the mouth. Could that explain patients’ taste loss? – Fox News

The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 can infect cells in the mouth, which may spur the virus’s spread both in the body and to other people, according to a preliminary study.
In the new study, posted Oct. 27 to the preprint database medRxiv
, researchers predicted which mouth tissues might be most vulnerable to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. So the team examined RNA
a kind of genetic material that tells the cells’ protein-making factories what to build for different cell types in the mouth. They…

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