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Imbalanced Host Response to SARS-CoV-2 Drives Development of COVID-19.

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It is proposed that reduced innate antiviral defenses coupled with exuberant inflammatory cytokine production are the defining and driving features of COVID-19.
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The cytokine storm and thyroid hormone changes in COVID-19.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarized available studies regarding thyroid function alterations in patients with COVID-19 and to overview the possible physio-pathological explanations for the thyroid dysfunction.
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COVID-19: Infection or Autoimmunity.

TL;DR: There is potential use of T cell depleting therapies and possibly anti-CD20 therapy for COVID-19 and clinical research using these medications is warranted and review of the basic science of other viral induced autoimmune disorders may give clues as to why immunosuppressive and immunomodulating regimens now appear to have some efficacy.
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Increased Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 and Loss of Alveolar Type II Cells in COVID-19-related Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.

TL;DR: In this paper, ACE2 (angiotensin-converting enzyme 2), the entry receptor for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is expressed in type 2 alveolar epithelial cells (AT2) that m...
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Inflammatory responses in the placenta upon SARS-CoV-2 infection late in pregnancy

TL;DR: In this article , the effect of SARS-CoV-2 infection on placental function is not well understood, but placentas from two mothers with symptomatic COVID-19 whose pregnancies resulted in adverse outcomes for the fetuses contained high levels of viral Alpha variant RNA.
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A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019.

TL;DR: Human airway epithelial cells were used to isolate a novel coronavirus, named 2019-nCoV, which formed a clade within the subgenus sarbecovirus, Orthocoronavirinae subfamily, which is the seventh member of the family of coronaviruses that infect humans.
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Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of 99 cases of 2019 novel coronavirus pneumonia in Wuhan, China: a descriptive study

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