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Re:Coronavirus could attack T lymphocytes like HIV [pdf] by makach on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @06:21AM (#22864320)
Pierre Little, in reply:"Look, it’s really quite simple. Does the cov2 genome have HIV inclusions on the s protein or not? If it does, the theory of immunosuppression from Cov2 has plausibility, thereby motivating other teams worldwide to study T and B cell impacts."

Alexander Dent, in reply: "It doesn't have HIV inclusions. That's disinformation. I checked the sequence alignment myself."

thread: https://twitter.com/CurlyJungleJake/status/12488112666357514...

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Re:Coronavirus could attack T lymphocytes like HIV [pdf] by lawlessone on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @07:07AM (#22864603)
>theory of immunosuppression from Cov2

A lot of the people it kills seem to be getting attacked by their own immune system though, can both these things happen at the same time?

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