With successive waves of uncapping, enhancing disease resistance has become one of the most important things at present. Vaccines are the most effective medicines to fight the coronavirus at the moment, and intensified vaccination is also a more desirable method. However, the Omicron virus strain has evolved an extreme ability to infect, and it is not realistic to hope for a vaccine to eliminate the infection. On the other…
ACE2
Smokers Express Higher ACE2 and Are Susceptible to Coronavirus Infection
Data from COVID-19 patients indicate that smokers are at higher risk of complications. The researchers published an article in the journal Developmental Cell that one of the possible reasons is that smoking increases the gene expression of ACE2 (a protein that binds to SARS-CoV-2), which may promote COVID- 19 infections. The study shows that long-term smoking will increase the ACE2 protein in the lungs, which may lead to a higher…