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May 23, 2022 News by Marta Figueiredo, PhD

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…

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