moronic_imbecile
moronic_imbecile t1_is7n42d wrote
Reply to comment by Smooth_Imagination in SARS-CoV2 enters the brain through the olfactory nerve in rhesus monkeys, causing neuroinflammation. The virus spread further into the brain in aging animals. by andyhfell
Do you have a citation for the influenza brain invasion? Not that I don’t believe you would it would be nice to see.
I wonder how much of this is confounded by (a) the obscenely massive dose they were given which is 2.5x10^6 plaque forming units which is a metric fuckload of virus, and (b) the fact that the monkeys were killed while having an active infection. Doesn’t the BBB break down during death? Couldn’t euthanizing them explain some viral infiltration?
moronic_imbecile t1_isc0t4z wrote
Reply to comment by BenevolentVagitator in SARS-CoV2 enters the brain through the olfactory nerve in rhesus monkeys, causing neuroinflammation. The virus spread further into the brain in aging animals. by andyhfell
It doesn’t explain anything since they gave them 10^6 PFU