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Researchers explain why COVID-19 infects older people and spares younger children – News-Medical.Net
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and their colleagues have determined a key factor as to why COVID-19 appears to infect and sicken adults…
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Nov 16 2020
Researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and their colleagues have determined a key factor as to why COVID-19 appears to infect and sicken adults and older people preferentially while seeming to spare younger children.
Children have lower levels of an enzyme/co-receptor that SARS-CoV-2, the RNA virus that causes COVID-19, needs to invade airway epithelial cells in the lung.
The findings, published today in the Journal of Clinical Investigation,…
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