When people think of symptoms associated with COVID-19, they often think of it as being a respiratory infection. But the symptoms can really be across the board, and new research being done at UC San Diego School of Medicine is showing that.

“What we have learned over the whole year, since COVID-19 came, even though the target site of the infection are lungs, but the consequences we are seeing in people are linked with the heart, brain and many other things,” explained Tariq Rana, PhD, professor and chief of the Division of Genetics in the Department of Pediatrics at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center.

So this led researchers to two questions:

Does the virus infect all the body’s organs in

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