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https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3079502/coronavirus-causes-covid-19-can-produce-more

This talks about how COVID-19 replicates faster than SARS, but that it is stealthier, and it seems to imply that it does far less lung damage.
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https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3077789/coronavirus-hamsters-may-show-path-toward

The article above talks a out how injecting hamsters with material from hamsters that recovered from COVID-19 increased their immunity a lot. They're thinking about testing the same thing with humans. It also mentions how alarming the damage the virus did to the hamsters was.
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https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3079443/coronavirus-could-target-immune-system-targeting-protective

The article talks about how T cells that touch COVID-19 viruses are taken hostage by the virus (but that new viruses aren't produced from the T cells).

Comparisons to HIV are made, as they both impact the immune system.

There is some confusion as to how some people are asymptomatic, and about cytokine storms.

SARS did not have this same impact on the immune system.
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https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3079678/coronavirus-mutation-threatens-race-develop-vaccine

The article above begins talking about an Indian strain of the virus with a mutation that changes the way it binds with cells or some such, and how this could thwart current efforts to create a vaccine. Then it says some really interesting stuff you won't find on Google's news. It says the virus mutates at the same rate as the flu (which is contrary to what I've read in the past), and that there are thousands of mutations of COVID-19 in the world. (Well … That puts new insight into the situation, and might explain why people can get it more than once.) Then they go back to talking about the original topic, and say that maybe the specific mutation that could thwart vaccines was just a sequencing error.

Here's another article that talks about mutations of COVID-19: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3079491/deadly-coronavirus-comes-three-variants-researchers-find
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Here's an interesting article about Tourette Syndrome comorbidities, anxiety, and mood disorders: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2015/03/123666/mood-anxiety-disorders-common-tourette-patients

For those who don't know (since I would have appreciated a definition some years ago), a comorbidity is where one has one or more other conditions in addition to the one at hand.
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