Question

. How does the Coronavirus affects the body immunologically (what kind of reaction occurs)?

2. What are the similarities and differences to Influenza?

3. Find 3 sources to back up your information

4. Based on what you have learned so far and from the resources you found do you think a vaccine will provide long term immunity like an MMR vaccine or short term like an Influenza vaccine?

Answer 1

1)Breathing carries the virus loaded particles to the lower respiratory tract where the spike proteins of the coronavirus, lock into epithelial cells that line the respiratory tract as well as those in the the airsacs in the lungs.The spike proteins are able to gain entry by unlocking the ACE2 protein on the lung cells. Then they replicate and multiply and infect adjoining cells. Like the defining ACE2 proteins on the epithelial cells.This is the antigen and then it implies the production of antibodies,

It is type 2 immunological reaction.

2)

Influenzae	corona viruse
4 strains	1 strain
RNA virus	RNA virus
Enveloped	enveloped
Negative strand	positive strand
Segmented RNA genome	non segmented RNA genome
Haemagglutinin and Neuraminadase surface protein	spike protein

4) compared to influenza virus which has four strain vaccines can't provide ling term immunity

But since corona viruse is single strain it can give a long term immunity.