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Re:Italy's Coronavirus Lockdown Tests the Limits of Democracy by Blahah on Monday March 09, 2020 @04:21PM (#22529327)
The virus accumulates in digestive organs and sheds in fecal matter. Gastrointestinal (fecal-oral) infection route seems likely.

See:

- https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.14.20022939v...

- https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.20.20025601v...

> Compared with SARS, COVID-19 was transmitted in a more diverse way, from person to person, asymptomatic infected people and possible fecal-oral transmission, created the conditions for a large-scale spread.

- https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.17.20023721v...

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Re:Italy's Coronavirus Lockdown Tests the Limits of Democracy by allovernow on Monday March 09, 2020 @04:24PM (#22529361)
I've grown tired of pulling up sources on mobile but publications claim the virus accumulates in nasal passaged during incubation. Also thought to play a role in the high false negative rates for testing.
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Re:Italy's Coronavirus Lockdown Tests the Limits of Democracy by Blahah on Monday March 09, 2020 @04:32PM (#22529438)
This is also true - digestive and respiratory organs appear to accumulate the virus most. Also heart and liver, which explains the high co-morbidity for people with damage to those organs.

See http://www.chinaxiv.org/abs/202002.00082

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Re:Italy's Coronavirus Lockdown Tests the Limits of Democracy by allovernow on Monday March 09, 2020 @04:43PM (#22529553)
Looks like any organ with ACE2 receptors.
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