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Diarrhea, stomach ache and nausea: The many ways COVID-19 can affect your gut – Medical Xpress

Media reports earlier this week described a Queensland nurse with stomach pains who went on to test positive for COVID-19.

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Media reports earlier this week described a Queensland nurse with stomach pains who went on to test positive for COVID-19.
Could stomach pains be another symptom of COVID-19? And if you have stomach pains, should you get tested?
Although we might think of COVID-19 as a respiratory disease, we know it involves the gut. In fact SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, enters our cells by latching onto protein receptors called ACE2. And the greatest numbers of ACE2 receptors are in the cells t…

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