The doctor immunologist-allergist Vladimir Bolibok made in conversation with “ribbon.ru” that coronavirus can learn to be transmitted not only by air-droplet, but also through blood or by sexual proximity.
Initially respiratory coronaviruses of a person were attached using receptors for cells of the epithelium cells, but the COVID-19 pandemic began when the Coronavirus mutation acquired the ability to cling to another protein, which is called the APF receptor, explained the immunologist’s doctor.
Theoretically, COVID-19 mutations may lead to the fact that it will be clinging for other proteins, considers Bolibok, in particular, CD4, which is a receptor to HIV. If this happens, Coronavirus will be able to adapt to the infection of T-lymphocytes responsible for immunity, because of which the virus will be in life in the human body, an immunologist explained.
In this case, the virus will be able to distribute both the same way, and new, or in general will lose the opportunity to spread by air-droplet, suggested bolibok.
“that is, if the virus acquires the property to infect T-lymphocyte through a CD4 receptor, he can infect these cells inside a person, and he can no longer be transmitted from a person, since we have a breathing path epithelium, this CD4 receptor . Why is AIDS in air is not transmitted? Because on epithelial cells there is no CD4 receptor, and it is transmitted from the blood to the blood. That is, the coronavirus can change the receptor itself as a result of mutations, and it will acquire a property transmitted, for example, sexually “, – Supposed immunologist.
Previously, Bolibok suggested that the most dangerous COVID-19 mutation will arise if it crosses with HIV and learn how to attack T-lymphocytes, that is, the cells of the immune system. This will lead to the fact that the infected person in principle will not be able to recover.