Health
Why Some Get Bad COVID, and Others Don’t—Discovered – msnNOW
Increasing evidence suggests that a significant minority of Covid-19 patients get very ill because of an impaired interferon response.
With more than 200,000 COVID-related deaths in America, it’s clear the virus is sneaky, going around our immune systems like a bike messenger during rush hour. But why do some people get far, far sicker than others? “From the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists baffled by the disease’s ferocity have wondered whether the body’s vanguard virus fighter, a molecular messenger called type I interferon, is missing in action in some severe cases. Two papers published online in Science thi…
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