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Why children avoid the worst coronavirus complications might lie in their arteries

Evidence is mounting that healthy blood vessels protect children from serious effects of COVID-19, such as stroke.
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Since the coronavirus outbreak began, scientists have been trying to work out why children are much less likely than adults to experience severe complications from the infection. Now research suggests that the answer might lie in children’s healthy blood vessels.

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Nature 582, 324-325 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-01692-z

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  1. Varga, Z. et al. Lancet https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30937-5 (2020).

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