Coronavirus Central - Episode 6 - February 15, 2020

Episode Six of Coronavirus Central looks much more deeply into the ACE-II pathway by which Covid infects humans and what implications result.  We start by examining the nature of the Angiotensin Converting Enzyme, revealing it is an essential component of all humans with heavy clusters in the lower respiratory system, and being used to regulate blood pressure.  As we review news and studies based both on Covid and SARS which uses this same mechanism, we learn of the threat not just from infection, but from reinfection where the immune system may begin attacking our own cardiovascular function when it tries to fight off this virus, in a cytokine storm similar to what happened with the Spanish Flu.   Considering this two-tier threat to public health, we consider the potential that Covid could be a bioweapon in light of certain actions by the PLA and a troubling document that suggests at least some people in China were made aware of this threat weeks before the general public.

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Links:

Latest statistics: https://covid19info.live/

Angiotensin Converting Enzyme definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiotensin-converting_enzyme

Tissue distribution of ACE: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15141377

Risks to kidney and testis health from Covid:  https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.12.20022418v1

Reinfection Worse?: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3876197

Chinese military taking over Wuhan lab: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8003713/China-appoints-military-bio-weapon-expert-secretive-virus-lab-Wuhan.html

Document showing earlier quarantine for PLA university: https://twitter.com/jenniferatntd/status/1228435515776667649

China stopping use of paper money: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-15/china-quarantines-cash-to-sanitize-old-bank-notes-from-virus