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Re:Messengers of hope: two mRNA Covid-19 vaccines herald a n... by rswail on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @03:17AM (#25579702)
As someone who takes an ACE inhibitor, I've just tried to read up and ACE inhibitors are for ACE-1, not ACE-2. They are two different things. ACE-1 is a precursor that generates the protein/enzyme that eventually connects to the ACE-2 receivers on cell walls that SARS-Cov-2 uses to invade cells.

Reading https://theconversation.com/what-is-the-ace2-receptor-how-is...

there is a section that explains the difference between ACE-1 inhibitors (like in ramipril etc) and ACE-2 inhibitors.

Wikipedia has the layman's details of the RAAS system:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renin%E2%80%93angiotensin_syst...

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