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Re:The neuroinvasive potential of SARS-CoV2 by angst_ridden on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @02:25PM (#22487022)
But the retina is not exposed to the outside world. It's got the rest of the eye between it and the air.
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Re:The neuroinvasive potential of SARS-CoV2 by jessriedel on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @04:02PM (#22488057)
Ok, but is brain tissue uniquely infectable compared to eye tissue or something? The ultimate worry isn't that your olfactory bulb gets hurt, it's that the infection reaches deeper into the brain, and I don't get why it's easier to do that from the olfactory bulb rather than from the eye.
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Re:The neuroinvasive potential of SARS-CoV2 by rolph on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @06:23PM (#22489245)
the conjunctiva of the eye is different tissue than optic nerve. there is fat, connective tissue, and muscle surrounding the eye.
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