A novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, emerged in December 2019, leading within a few
months to a global pandemic. COVID-19, the disease caused by this highly contagious virus …

Abstract Corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global emergency able to overwhelm
the healthcare capacities worldwide and to affect the older generation especially. When …

Within the past several decades, the emergence of new viral diseases with severe health
complications and mortality is evidence of an age-dependent, compromised bodily response …

The advent of the SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 pandemic has generated a lot of publications
at a rapid pace. We know that older adults disproportionately suffer the most severe of …

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 is a deadly threat, and although all
individ-uals are susceptible, advanced age is one of the risk factors for its direst …

COVID-19 is not deadly early in life, but mortality increases exponentially with age, which is
the strongest predictor of mortality. Mortality is higher in men than in women, because men …

The COVID-19 global crisis is reshaping Canadian society in unexpected and profound
ways. The significantly higher morbidity and mortality risks by age suggest that this is largely …

128 biological background (eg, the so-called phenomenon of inflamm-aging); all aspects
that can complicate the course of disease, much more than the mere number of years lived …

Geriatricians and others must embrace the emerging field of geroscience. Until recently
geroscience research was pursued in laboratory animals, but now this field requires …

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 …