{"id":2155,"date":"2023-01-10T18:09:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T00:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2023-01-10T18:09:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T00:09:09","slug":"stanford-medicine-scientists-pinpoint-covid-19-viruss-entry-and-exit-ports-inside-our-noses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/01\/10\/stanford-medicine-scientists-pinpoint-covid-19-viruss-entry-and-exit-ports-inside-our-noses\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanford Medicine scientists pinpoint COVID-19 virus\u2019s entry and exit ports inside our noses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/med.stanford.edu\/news\/all-news\/2023\/01\/covid-virus-infection-nasal.html\">Stanford Medicine<\/a>) A discovery by Stanford Medicine researchers and colleagues may pave the way for a \u201cmorning after\u201d or prophylactic nasal spray to prevent infection.  Somebody just coughed on you. On a plane. At a dinner party. In a supermarket line. If only there were a \u201cmorning after\u201d nasal spray that could knock out respiratory viruses\u2019 ability to colonize your nose and throat. In a study publishing today in the print issue of\u00a0<em>Cell<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.stanford.edu\/peter-jackson\">Peter Jackson<\/a>, PhD, a Stanford Medicine professor of pathology and of microbiology and immunology, and his colleagues brought that possibility closer to reality by pinpointing the routes that SARS-CoV-2, the COVID-19 virus, takes to enter and exit cells in our nasal cavity. \u201cOur upper airways are the launchpad not only for infection of our lungs but for transmission to others,\u201d Jackson said.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Stanford Medicine) A discovery by Stanford Medicine researchers and colleagues may pave the way for a \u201cmorning after\u201d or prophylactic nasal spray to prevent infection. Somebody just coughed on you. On a plane. At a dinner party. In a supermarket line. If only there were a \u201cmorning after\u201d nasal spray that could knock out respiratory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid","category-science-and-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2156,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions\/2156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}