Why does severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 attack the aged more severely?

Yiwen Xie¹, Hongcui Cao^{1

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Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, National Medical Center for Infectious Diseases, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
² Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Physic-Chemical and Aging-Related Injuries, Hangzhou, China.

Editorial

Yiwen Xie et al. J Intern Med. 2024 Oct.

. 2024 Oct;296(4):308-310.

doi: 10.1111/joim.13825. Epub 2024 Jul 19.

Yiwen Xie¹, Hongcui Cao^{1

2}

¹ State Key Laboratory for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Infectious Diseases, National Medical Center for Infectious Diseases, Collaborative Innovation Center for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases, The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China.
² Zhejiang Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Physic-Chemical and Aging-Related Injuries, Hangzhou, China.

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Early antiviral treatment contributes to alleviate the severity and improve the prognosis of patients with novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
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