Immune cells infected with COVID trigger massive inflammatory response, according to new studies
Your browser does not support the audio element.Since the beginning of the pandemic there has been a debate amongst researchers about whether the body's immune cells can themselves be infected by SARS-CoV-2.
Now two new studies show that they can - and what's more, the work has revealed a new mechanism for the massive inflammatory response seen in severe COVID.
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