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. In this episode of&nbsp;Coronapod, we dig into the papers, asking why it has taken so long to get an answer to this question? How immune cell infection could lead to severe disease? And whether this new mechanism could provide a new avenue for the development of therapeutics?News:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00965-z" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">What triggers severe COVID? Infected immune cells hold clues</a><a href="https://go.nature.com/get-the-nature-briefing" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">﻿Subscribe to Nature Briefing, an unmissable daily round-up of science news, opinion and analysis free in your inbox every weekday.</a><hr> See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.

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Coronapod: Infected immune cells hint at cause of severe COVID

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