Does a younger host make the virus weaker? Presenting a new hypothesis

BACKGROUND: COVID-19 is a pandemic, resulting in large number of deaths all over the world. METHODS: The risk factors for mortality are not clearly understood. We are presenting a new hypothesis. RESULTS: Virus become more virulent as it passes through weaker hosts and vice versa. CONCLUSIONS: Virus...

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Autores principales: Jayadevan, Rajeev, Raveendran, A.V.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Diabetes India. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7487201/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32956927
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.09.011
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description BACKGROUND: COVID-19 is a pandemic, resulting in large number of deaths all over the world. METHODS: The risk factors for mortality are not clearly understood. We are presenting a new hypothesis. RESULTS: Virus become more virulent as it passes through weaker hosts and vice versa. CONCLUSIONS: Viruses become more virulent when it passes through weaker and older hosts. It will be worth analysing the transmission chain of COVID-19 from this perspective.
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spelling pubmed-74872012020-09-14 Does a younger host make the virus weaker? Presenting a new hypothesis Jayadevan, Rajeev Raveendran, A.V. Diabetes Metab Syndr Article BACKGROUND: COVID-19 is a pandemic, resulting in large number of deaths all over the world. METHODS: The risk factors for mortality are not clearly understood. We are presenting a new hypothesis. RESULTS: Virus become more virulent as it passes through weaker hosts and vice versa. CONCLUSIONS: Viruses become more virulent when it passes through weaker and older hosts. It will be worth analysing the transmission chain of COVID-19 from this perspective. Diabetes India. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2020 2020-09-13 /pmc/articles/PMC7487201/ /pubmed/32956927 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsx.2020.09.011 Text en © 2020 Diabetes India. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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