Category: Mitochondrial Effects

How Covid-19 damages lungs explained

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Authors: mINT oCTOBER 31, 2022 sYNOPSIS SARS-CoV-2 is the third novel coronavirus to cause human outbreaks in the 21st century, following SARS-CoV in 2003 and MERS-CoV in 2012. Covid-19: The virus attacks mitochondria, continuing an ancient battle that began in the primordial soup Kingston (Canada), (The Conversation): Viruses and bacteria have a very long history. […]

A New Study Pinpoints a Cause of Long-Haul COVID Symptoms

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An Attack on Mitochondria? Authors:  MAGGIE RYAN February 2, 2022 As the pandemic continues, long COVID-19 remains very prevalent (affecting between 31 and 69 percent of COVID-19 patients) and somewhat bewildering because there’s no clear connection between the severity of a patient’s initial symptoms and how long they might linger. That was one thing that Irina Petrache, MD, chief of the […]