Health
DNA link behind severe Covid-19 may lead to a new treatment – Hindustan Times
Therapies based on Interferon, a substance that helps orchestrate the body’s defense against viral pathogens, has potential to enlarge a slowly accumulating range of Covid-19 treatments.
When two brothers fell critically ill with Covid-19 around the same time in March, their doctors were baffled. Both were young — 29 and 31 years old — and healthy. Yet within days they couldn’t breathe on their own and, tragically, one of them died.
Two weeks later, when a second pair of Covid-stricken brothers, both in their 20s, also appeared in the Netherlands, geneticists were called in to investigate. What they uncovered was a path leading from severe cases, genetic variations, and gende…
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