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07/02/2020
Coronavirus Autopsies: A Story of 38 Brains, 87 Lungs and 42 Heart
What we're learning from science
When pathologist Amy Rapkiewicz began the grim process of opening up the coronavirus (COVID-19) dead to learn how their bodies went awry, she found damage to the lungs, kidneys and liver consistent with what doctors had reported for months.
But something was off.
Rapkiewicz, who directs autopsies at NYU Langone Health, noticed that some organs had far too many of a special cell rarely found in those places. She had never seen that before, yet it seemed vaguely familiar. She raced to her history books and — in a eureka moment — found a reference to a 1960s report on a patient with dengue fever.
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