Article
Impaired immune response drives age-dependent severity of COVID-19
2022-04-22
Abstract excerpt
SARS-CoV-2 is a highly contagious respiratory virus and the causative agent for COVID-19. The severity of disease varies from mildly symptomatic to lethal and shows an extraordinary correlation with increasing age, which represents the major risk factor for severe COVID-19 1 . However, the precise pathomechanisms leading to aggravated disease in the elderly are currently unknown. Delayed and insufficient antivira...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 3b81ab26-c2d3-504a-91e3-8c07ebe39691
- DOI
- 10.1101/2022.04.21.489072
