SARS-CoV-2 — the virus which causes COVID-19 — can get into the tissues of the brain and other non-respiratory sites, autopsies have revealed. Prior to the work, infectious disease specialist Dr Daniel Chertow of the US National Institutes of Health said, “the thinking in the field was that SARS-CoV-2 was predominantly a respiratory virus". The researchers are now moving to expand their study, with the hope of exploring the relationship between widely infected tissues and long COVID. In their study, Dr Chertow and his colleagues analysed tissue samples from the autopsies of 44 people who died with COVID-19 and had...