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Patients with severe COVID-19 have antibodies blocking body’s important defense mechanisms

September 25, 2020

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Persons with critical corona-disease may have antibodies blocking the body´s most important defence mechanisms.

While most people dying from COVID-19 are elderly, up to 5 to 10 percent of younger adults and children can also be seriously infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Researchers from all over the world have tried to determine why some people become very ill and others are barely affected with COVID-19.

Researchers from the University of Bergen and their French colleagues are getting closer to an answer.

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