Have you been following some of the research linking poor clinical outcomes in Covid-19 patients to CMV?
https://immunityageing.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12979-021-00218-z
And then compare the map (note the high incidence of congenital CMV in India, South Africa, and Brazil):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3553672/#!po=6.72043
Upshot: we might need to get a handle on CMV in order to quash Covid-19.
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Have you been following some of the research linking poor clinical outcomes in Covid-19 patients to CMV?
https://immunityageing.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12979-021-00218-z
And then compare the map (note the high incidence of congenital CMV in India, South Africa, and Brazil):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3553672/#!po=6.72043
Upshot: we might need to get a handle on CMV in order to quash Covid-19.