Health
This is why COVID-19 may be life-threatening for some patients – The Japan Times
The common thread in the research is the lack of a substance called interferon that helps orchestrate the body’s defense against viral pathogens.
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 couldnt breathe on their own and, tragically, one of them died.
Two weeks later, when a second pair of COVID-19-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 gender dif…
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