omicron?

[GeoFisher]

The Stanford University study—which has not yet been peer-reviewed or published in a journal—was posted online in late October on the preprint server bioRxiv.1


For the study, the researchers conducted lab experiments on fat tissue that had been taken from bariatric surgery patients. The goal was to see whether the tissue could be infected with SARS-CoV-2. Then they analyzed how different types of fat cells responded to the virus.

The researchers discovered that not only could the fat cells become infected by the COVID virus, but that immune cells called macrophages—which are found in tissues throughout the body, including fat (adipose tissue)—can also become infected and contribute to an inflammatory response in the body.

My take is that this is very early research. Not on Humans, and not live tissue, although I'm not too sure about the live part.

Just not sure it is something that had correlation, IMHO.

Later,

geo

[GeoFisher]

The Stanford University study—which has not yet been peer-reviewed or published in a journal—was posted online in late October on the preprint server bioRxiv.1


For the study, the researchers conducted lab experiments on fat tissue that had been taken from bariatric surgery patients. The goal was to see whether the tissue could be infected with SARS-CoV-2. Then they analyzed how different types of fat cells responded to the virus.

The researchers discovered that not only could the fat cells become infected by the COVID virus, but that immune cells called macrophages—which are found in tissues throughout the body, including fat (adipose tissue)—can also become infected and contribute to an inflammatory response in the body.

My take is that this is very early research. Not on Humans, and not live tissue, although I'm not too sure about the live part.

Just not sure it is something that had correlation, IMHO.

Later,

geo

I would also say that Bariatric patients are the absolute worse of the worse........some are near death from obesity in the first place.

THIS would have been a much better study if done on covid patients, that were fat, but I think there would be issues taking fat samples from them ..

Later,

Geo