Reasons Seen for COPD Patients’ Susceptibility to Severe COVID-19

The infection rate of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is 24 times higher in lab-grown airway cells from people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) than in those from healthy people, a study shows. This increased susceptibility to infection, which makes severe outcomes more likely, was associated with…

Overweight COPD Patients at Greater Risk of Contracting COVID-19, Study Suggests

People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who are overweight have increased levels of the protein that the SARS-CoV-2 virus — the virus that causes COVID-19 — uses to get into cells, a new study shows. The results suggest that these individuals may be at greater risk of contracting…