Cloaking trick: new worrisome study finds #SARSCoV2 removes molecules used to identify invaders. Normally, MHC samples & brings molecules from inside a cell to cell surface - if foreign, cell is executed. Without MHCvirus is cloaked inside cell! https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3086177/coronavirus-uses-same-strategy-hiv-dodge-immune-response-chinese

2) “The novel coronavirus uses the same strategy to evade attack from the human immune system as HIV, according to a new study by Chinese scientists. Both viruses remove marker molecules on the surface of an infected cell that are used by the immune system to identify invaders.”

3) “They warned that this commonality could mean Sars-CoV-2, the clinical name for the virus, could be around for some time, like HIV.”

4) “Their research involved collecting killer T cells from five patients who had recently recovered from Covid-19, the disease caused by the virus. Those immune cells are generated by people after they are infected with Sars-CoV-2 – their job is to find and destroy the virus.”

5) “But the killer T cells used in the study were not effective at eliminating the virus in infected cells. When the scientists took a closer look they found that a molecule known as major histocompatibility complex, or MHC, was missing” !!!

6) “The molecule is an identification tag usually present in the membrane of a healthy cell, or in sick cells infected by other coronaviruses such as Sars. It changes with infections, alerting the immune system whether a cell is healthy or infected by a virus.”

7) “HIV uses the same strategy – MHC molecules are also absent in cells infected with that virus. In contrast, Sars-1 does not make use of this function. The SARS-2 coronavirus removes these markers by producing a protein that pulls MHC inside the infected cell and destroys them”

8) “Suppression of MHC molecules had also happened in other viruses such as some herpes viruses... the new coronavirus was not hijacking T cells and turning them into a means to reproduce, as HIV did, adding that the new virus was mutating at a much slower pace“

9) Other scientists are also concerned by the new MHC destroying function of the new coronavirus. https://twitter.com/nanogenomic/status/1265409046061780992?s=21 https://twitter.com/nanogenomic/status/1265409046061780992

10) BOTTOMLINE: By destroying/ suppressing MHC molecules used by T-cells to identify which cells are foreign-invaded (virus infected), #SARSCoV2 effectively cloaks itself inside cells it infects, thereby hiding from T-cells & allowing time to reproduce! This cloak is very bad.