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Gut’s immune response to SARS-CoV-2 very different from the lung – News-Medical.Net
Megan L. Stanifer et al. study the immune response in the human gut upon SARS-CoV-2 infection. The study published as a bioRxiv* preprint reveals a robust proinflammatory…

Common symptoms of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are cough, fever, fatigue, and loss of smell. Many COVID-19 patients also have gastrointestinal symptoms. This correlates with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection of the intestinal epithelium in the COVID-19 patients. The SARS-CoV-2 virus has so far claimed over 1.16 million lives worldwide since the initial cases were discovered in Wuhan, China, in late December 2019.
However, little is known about the…
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