How the Coronavirus Attacks Your Lungs | Deep Look

The new coronavirus packs a devastating punch. It penetrates deep into your lungs, causing our immune cells to go haywire and damage tiny air sacs – the alveoli – where oxygen normally flows into our blood.

Viruses like the novel coronavirus have one goal: to persist. It hijacks the cells in our respiratory system to replicate. In some ways, viruses are like living things–they have genetic material and adapt to their environment. However, a virus needs a host to make more copies of itself.

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