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PRO/AH/EDR> COVID-19 update (413): interferon type I, Saudi Arabia Umrah, WHO, global

COVID-19 -- United StatesNew findings by scientists at the National Institutes of Health and their collaborators help explain why some people with COVID-19 develop severe disease. The findings also may provide the 1st molecular explanation for why more men than women die from COVID-19.The researchers found that more than 10% of people who develop severe COVID-19 have misguided antibodies -- autoantibodies -- that attack the immune system rather than the virus that causes the disease. Another 3.5% Read more [...]