COVID-19 — United States
There’s a new paper [see [B] eLife article below] that a lot of people are talking about recently that presents a rather large unifying hypothesis about the effects of the coronavirus (and suggests some new modes of treatment as well). This is the “bradykinin hypothesis”, and before digging into it, it might be worth a paragraph to talk about what bradykinin is.
It’s a 9-amino-acid peptide, and it’s got a ton of biological activity. Bradykinin lowers blood pressure by dilating blood
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