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Researchers Find Why Elderly Patients Face Higher Risk Of Severity In COVID-19 Infections | newkerala.com Health News – New Kerala
Health News: Researchers Find Why Elderly Patients Face Higher Risk Of Severity In COVID-19 Infections – New research, comparing the immune response among age groups, may help explain why elderly patients face a higher risk of severity and death than younge…
Older patients with the disease have lower frequencies of the immune cells needed to expel the virus from the body, the researchers found. The study was published this week in mBio, an open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology.”Elderly people have more severe diseases compared to young people, and we found that the cytotoxic part of immune control is not as efficient to respond to the virus in older people,” said virologist Gennadiy Zelinskyy, Ph.D., at the University Hospital…
