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On Mon, Nov 15, 2021, at 1:12 PM, Rick Moen wrote: > Deirdre has made a _very_ interesting point that severe COVID-19 is > actually not a disease of the respiratory system, but rather of the > vascular endothelium, the crucial tissue layer lining the insides of > arteries, veins, and microvessels. > https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7470753/ That is what makes > the severe disease so horrifying in its effects, and unique in human > history. However, the pathogen in _other_ ways is subject to the same > disease dynamics as other troublesome viruses. On the bright side, we may actually get some significant research $$ into endothelial disease, and stop treating it as merely a moral problem of the overweight and smokers. One of the charming factoids of the endothelium is that it has holes in it, which people thought for a long time weren't structural. (They are.) They are called fenestrations. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2681366/ The endothelium also is what creates the blood/brain barrier. Also, when your GFR (glomerular filtration rate, a measure of kidney function) is checked, that's also the endothelium. https://www.lecturio.com/magazine/fenestration-endothelial-transport/ Deirdre