How COVID 19 Affects the Body

Visit our website to learn more about using Nucleus content for patient engagement and content marketing: COVID19 is the short name for the disease known as novel coronavirus disease 2019. Coronaviruses are a large group of similar viruses. Some are known to infect humans, such as SARSCoV and MERSCoV. The one that causes COVID19 is called SARSCoV2. All coronaviruses are named for the crownlike spikes that cover their surface, called spike, or S, proteins. Inside the virus, genetic material, called RNA, is made up of genes. Genes carry the information to make more copies of the virus. The virus can infect you if it enters your mouth, nose, or lungs. Inside your body, the S protein of the virus locks to a receptor on the surface of one of your cells. This can trigger the virus to enter the cell in a couple of ways. It may cause the virus to fuse with the cell surface, then release its genes into the cell. Or, the cell may pull the virus inside by enclosing it in a