BSG and infection: (2) this may be due to a divergence between viral RNA replication and viral protein production/clearance (or regulation) during the recovery phase seven-day post-infection, (3) CD147 may play a role in late phase cell-to-cell infection (Fig. 5), but not as a functional receptor (such as ACE2) to mediate viral entry, evidenced by the lack of a significant difference in viral load between infected WT-NSG and in hCD147KI-NSG mice measured by qRT-PCR at the early infection (Day 2).