I’m sure everyone has seen it by now, but I suspect there is a lot of confusion about the paper and the information presented. This thread hopefully clears things up a bit.
Excellent explanation of mechanism discussed in recent SarsCov2 causing AIDS paper.
“So, to recap: Researchers identified two genotypes of the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein that are able to use CD147 on host lymphocytes to infect those cells, and explain how that could contribute to immune deficiency and viral persistence (by citing independent research).”