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Covid-19: What you need to know today – Hindustan Times
The need to answer questions such as these is why vaccine development usually takes years. The global health and economic crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has meant that vaccine developers have tried to shorten the development cycle.
Scientists have found the answers (or the beginning of answers) to two important questions about Covid-19.
The first: why are men who contract the coronavirus disease at greater risk than women?
The answer — like many others where Covid-19 is concerned — lies in the immune response to the virus.
According to research by Akiko Iwasaki and others at the Yale School of Medicine, the male immune response is largely built around cytokines and chemokines, both signalling proteins that are part of t…
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