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One of the possible symptoms of coronaviruses (this one, also SARS and MERS) is a decreased white cell count.

Source?

"The biggest assault the virus launches is on a patient's immune system. It causes a fall in the count of lymphocytes"

Thanks. It doesn’t say how that’s possible. I’d be more interested in the sars and mers case. I had never heard that before.