>>11560332>muh /pol/Stop being such a fucking redditor holy shit. Just think about this for a minute, and consider why we sometimes have to inject antibiotics directly into the spinal fluid. If pathogens can invade nerve cells they can avoid much of the innate and adaptive immune system, I've seen studies that imply this is part of the "reenfection" debacle. Not this particular one, but I'll post it if I find it.
"its interaction with ACE2 receptors (Figure Figure11C, D) expressed in neurons2 can initiate a cycle of viral budding accompanied by neuronal damage without substantial inflammation as has been seen with cases of SARS-CoV3 in the past."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7094171/#!po=2.38095"without substantial inflammation" is the important takeaway here. It's pretty much conjecture from the point of the researchers, but it's based on behavior of SARS-Cov-1 and the fact that loss of the sense of smell occurs. This is not about being "more deadly" as much as it might explain why the virus is difficult to clear for some, and why tests are difficult to trust.
