The coronavirus can infect the entire human respiratory system, all the way down to millions of tiny air sacs in your lungs. Here's a quick explainer of how the virus — and an immune system overreaction — can make us sick 👇
"The purpose of a virus is to persist," Ott says. Viruses do so by infecting and commandeering human cells — basically making each host cell into a"mini virus-producing machine," she says. From there, new virus particles spread.
"It's actually one step ahead of us in the way that it spreads relatively undetected in some people," she says. That allows this virus to"multiply and persist much longer than other deadly viruses." The virus spreads on moisture droplets through the air or on surfaces, eventually finding its way inside our bodies — typically through theInside the body, the coronavirus attacks the cells in the back of the infected person's nose, replicating and spreading downward, and infecting healthy cells along the way.
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