Posted on 09/25/2021 8:41:42 AM PDT by House Atreides
In a new study from the University of Kent, researchers found a protein that may critically contribute to severe forms of COVID-19.
SARS-CoV-2 is the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. While many individuals develop only mild or no symptoms upon SARS-CoV-2 infection, others develop severe, life-threatening disease.
Researchers have found that the infection of cells with SARS-CoV-2 results in increased levels of a protein called CD47 on the cell surface.
CD47 is a so-called ‘do not eat me’ signal to the immune system’s defenses that protect cells from being destroyed.
Virus-induced CD47 on the surface of infected cells is likely to protect them from immune system recognition, enabling the production of larger amounts of virus, resulting in more severe disease.
Well-known risk factors for severe COVID-19 such as older age and diabetes are associated with higher CD47 levels.
High CD47 levels also contribute to high blood pressure, which is a large risk factor for COVID-19 complications such as heart attack, stroke, and kidney disease.
In the study, the results suggest that age and virus-induced high CD47 levels contribute to severe COVID-19 by preventing an effective immune response and increasing disease-associated tissue and organ damage.
Since therapeutics targeting CD47 are in development, this discovery may result in improved COVID-19 therapies.
The team says they may have identified a major factor associated with severe COVID-19. This is a huge step in combatting the disease and they can now look forward to further progress in the design of therapeutics.
If you care about COVID-19, please read studies about the cause of COVID-19 lung damage and findings of these drugs may reduce death risk and time in ICU in people with severe COVID-19.
For more information about COVID-19 prevention and treatment, please see recent studies about your immune system mounts a lasting defense after recovery from COVID-19 and results showing that this common drug may reduce death risk in severe COVID-19.
The study is published in Current Issues in Molecular Biology. One author of the study is Professor Martin Michaelis.
More proof it’s a democrat/CCP bio weapon.
Or, get on ivermectin and HCQ prophylactically.
Not Vaxed.
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Sounds very legitimate to me. Will fauci and his gang condemn it because it might give people an excuse to not get the fauci ouchie?
Soooo...what are the “vaxes” doing?
The CD47 “do not eat me” signaling protein is a defensive measure also employed by cancer cells to prevent destruction by the immune system.
https://www.annalsofoncology.org/article/S0923-7534(19)31086-5/fulltext
Maybe that’s why I haven’t had it. I’m 66. My BP today was 114/76. My blood sugar when checked at my 6 month checkup was 79. I don’t take BP meds and the only prescription I take is a thyroid pill each day. I try to stay healthy since I do have seasonal asthma. I do my best to avoid all respiratory viruses.
I’ve wondered that if covid causes the body to ‘attack itself’ like an autoimmune disease li,e arthritis, crohn’s or colitis, lupus or whatever, woild folks with autoimmune diseases be at higher risk of getting the serious symptoms? Or would their bodies be too busy fighting off the diseases they have to then focus on covid and damaging organs?
A .ot of folks have an autoimmune disease but don’t even realize,it, and think that they are healthy with. NO issues to speak of, none that have diag owed anyways, I wonder if these are the ‘healthy folks with no preconditions’ that we hear of coming down with covid and xying?
Old news.
It’s just that Covid-19 has never been isolated and we have no test for it, and 38 million cases of influenza ‘disappeared’ last year, so the scare tactics about Covid are old and busted.
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Well, it was new to me and likely is to many others also. I did a FR search on “CD47” as well as the title of the article and got no hits.
Very interesting. Maybe something developed can help both cancer and the covid bioweapon
I’ve read that 90% of those 65 and younger (probably older ones too) who truly suffer the most from covid are very obese. This needs to be discussed more.
Would be much more useful if compared to the autopsy of a naturally immune person treated with Ivermectin as a prophylactic to see if these newly ‘discovered’ proteins exist to the same extent as someone ‘jabbed’.
House Atreides, is posing COVID crap all that you do? You might need a life.
“It’s just that Covid-19 has never been isolated and we have no test for it…”
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Right… and the moon landing was fake and there is no such thing as a CD47 protein. It’s all a big trick the medical and molecular biology scientists are playing on us.
Seriously, I know that your jihad makes you feel compelled to comment, however inanely, but this thread really has nothing to do with vaccines. The information does however perhaps provide some clues to some possible additional treatment approaches for COVID-19 and other viruses that may employ similar defensive mechanisms.
Interesting.
Hubs and I got it last fall and had mild cases.
Co-workers, younger than us, got it and ended up in hospital. She was able to come back to work after a month but her husband is STILL on supplemental oxygen.
It baffles me that they got it so bad and we old fogies shook it off.
I have often wondered if we were exposed to variants of Covid from working around cattle, but who knows.
“… It baffles me that they got it so bad and we old fogies shook it off.…”
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Well, having good genetics and coming from “good stock” likely helps.
Aspirin Use Is Associated With Decreased Mechanical Ventilation, Intensive Care Unit Admission, and In-Hospital Mortality in Hospitalized Patients With Coronavirus Disease 2019
Sounds great. Unless you have an over active immune system like me and most my family. Stopping the do not eat me flag would give my immune system free reign to kill me. How about just sticking with ivermectin?
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