Study reveals how #SARSCoV2 alters mitochondria, leading to energy outages and organ failure

> An interdisciplinary #COVID19 International Research Team found that SARS-CoV-2 alters mitochondria on a genetic level, leading to widespread "energy outages" throughout the body and its major organs.

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Core mitochondrial genes are down-regulated during SARS-CoV-2 infection of rodent and human hosts

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This could be really important. Long term damage to mitochondria after infection would explain much of the symptoms that long COVID (or ME/CF) sufferers experience.

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