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   COVID-19 Is a Vascular Disease: Coronavirus' Spike Protein Attacks   
   Vascular System on a Cellular Level   
      
   Salk researchers and collaborators show how the protein damages cells,   
   confirming COVID-19 as a primarily vascular disease.   
      
   Scientists have known for a while that SARS-CoV-2's distinctive   
   "spike" proteins help the virus infect its host by latching on to   
   healthy cells. Now, a major new study shows that they also play a key   
   role in the disease itself.   
      
   The paper, published on April 30, 2021, in Circulation Research, also   
   shows conclusively that COVID-19 is a vascular disease, demonstrating   
   exactly how the SARS-CoV-2 virus damages and attacks the vascular   
   system on a cellular level. The findings help explain COVID-19's wide   
   variety of seemingly unconnected complications, and could open the   
   door for new research into more effective therapies.   
      
   "A lot of people think of it as a respiratory disease, but it's really   
   a vascular disease," says Assistant Research Professor Uri Manor, who   
   is co-senior author of the study. "That could explain why some people   
   have strokes, and why some people have issues in other parts of the   
   body. The commonality between them is that they all have vascular   
   underpinnings."   
      
      
      
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