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.