COVID-19 can kill heart muscle cells, interfere with contraction

ScienceDaily
Mar 2, 2021, 3:00 pm139 pts
A new study provides evidence that COVID-19 patients' heart damage is caused by the virus invading and replicating inside heart muscle cells, leading to cell death and interfering with heart muscle contraction. The researchers used stem cells to engineer heart tissue that models the human infection and could…

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