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Anything that overruns the body will kill in diverse ways.

Cancer does the same thing. This isn't something new and terrifying...

A supercomputer probably couldn't model the exact way a terminal cancer patient will die.

Partially agree with this. It is not uncommon for a virus to sneak into the brain or other organs, but SARS COV2 is a little different in that it specifically attacks receptors found in all those areas. It isn't just a bi-product of the virus overwhelming your immune system and being so prevalent it gets into everything.

I do wish these articles would talk more about what the virus is doing (less scary) than what it can do (article can be written to be as terrifying as the author wants). If .0000001 of cases have their hearts attacked it isn't as fear mongery as saying "look it can attack your heart!"

There's just not much of an article to write about what the virus generally does. They lay out the typical course over two paragraphs near the beginning of the article: it infects the lungs, and gives patients a progressively harder time breathing, until either their immune system fights it back or their breathing is too impaired.

Cancer is terrifying.

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