Coronavirus is mysteriously sparing kids and killing the elderly. Understanding why may help defeat the virus

This Washington Post story included in previous highlights has been reprinted in national and international publications. UTMB’s Vineet Menachery was a story contributor. “With respiratory infections like this, we usually see a U-shaped curve on who gets hit the hardest. Young children at one end of the U because their immune systems aren’t developed and old people at the other end because their immune systems grow weaker,” said Menachery. “With this virus, one side of the U is just completely missing."

 

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