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lapfog_1

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11. The virus enters your lungs and sets up shop

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Thu Mar 12, 2020, 11:36 AM

Mar 2020

The first job is to get you (the host) to infect others... so it makes copies using your own cells... it tries to do this with triggering a response from your immune system. Since this is a novel virus, it gets away with it for some time. Eventually it disrupts so much of your system that your immune system swings into action to kill it... fever goes up, cough to get rid of pathogen.

But, in some cases, too late... the disruption to the cilia in your lungs is so bad that you die or become very ill.

In either case, its first job is to replicate and find another host.

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Asymptomatic? [View all] question everything Mar 2020 OP

It means you are a carrier of the virus Bayard Mar 2020 #1

Yes, but how do you know that you are a carrier? question everything Mar 2020 #3

Countries with working Public health are testing those exposed and tracking them hlthe2b Mar 2020 #8

Thanks. The key words knowing to have been exposed question everything Mar 2020 #10

When they swab your mouth/throat there Phoenix61 Mar 2020 #2

But why would you be swabbed in the first place, with no symptoms? question everything Mar 2020 #5

You were in contact with someone who Phoenix61 Mar 2020 #6

Thanks. question everything Mar 2020 #7

post 8 hlthe2b Mar 2020 #9

I'm not an expert, just a reader. Mike 03 Mar 2020 #4

The virus enters your lungs and sets up shop lapfog_1 Mar 2020 #11

I know. Many years ago in a virology class the professor said that viruses look for accommodating question everything Mar 2020 #12