COVID-19 is on everyone’s mind these days and rightfully so. Everyone’s life has been turned upside down, with frequent handwashing, masks, working from home, and the closing of non-essential businesses. Doctors and scientists have learned so many new things from studying the novel coronavirus and the patients infected with it. You may be puzzled by how many of the body’s functions and organs appear to be affected by COVID-19, and, at first, doctors and scientists were too. But now they know that the normal body protein that allows the novel coronavirus to enter cells, ACE-2, is present on cells that are…well, just about everywhere in our bodies.
