With no known treatments or vaccine, COVID-19 presents a major threat, particularly to older
adults, who account for the majority of severe illness and deaths. The age-related …

Abstract Importance: Among COVID-19 cases, especially the (frail) elderly show a high
number of severe infections, hospital admissions, complications, and death. The highest …

Summary Background Long-COVID (LC) encompasses diverse symptoms lasting months
after the initial SARS-CoV-2 infection. Symptoms can be debilitating and affect the quality of …

Derailed cytokine and immune cell networks account for the organ damage and the clinical
severity of COVID-19 (refs.,,–). Here we show that SARS-CoV-2, like other viruses, evokes …

In February 2021, France had more than 76,000 deaths due to COVID-19 and older adults
were heavily affected. Most measures taken to reduce the impact of COVID-19 (quarantine …

A poor socioeconomic environment and social adversity are fundamental determinants of
human life span, well-being and health. Previous influenza pandemics showed that …

Novel coronavirus (COVID-19 or 2019-nCoV or SARS-CoV-2), which suddenly emerged in
December 2019 is still haunting the entire human race and has affected not only the …

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has elicited a swift response by the
scientific community to elucidate the pathogenesis of severe acute respiratory syndrome …

A new coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2, was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
The SARS-CoV-2 spread very rapidly, causing a global pandemic, Coronavirus Disease …

The elderly may represent a specific cluster of high-risk patients for developing COVID-19
with rapidly progressive clinical deterioration. Indeed, in older individuals …