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Scientists Discover Genetic and Immunologic Underpinnings of Some Cases of Severe COVID-19 – EurekAlert
New findings by scientists at the National Institutes of Health and their collaborators help explain why some people with COVID-19 develop severe disease. The findings also may provide the first molecular explanation for why more men than women die from COVID…

IMAGE: Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a dying cell (blue) heavily infected with SARS-CoV-2 (yellow), the virus that causes COVID-19.
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Credit: NIAID Integrated Research Facility, Fort Detrick, Maryland.
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New findings by scientists at the National Institutes of Health and their collaborators help explain why some people with COVID-19 develop severe disease. The findings also may provide the first molecular explanation for why more men than women die from COVID-19.
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