Melbourne: Researchers have decoded why people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are at higher risk of developing severe COVID-19, an advance that could lead to the development of new therapeutic interventions to reduce the infection in patients with the lung condition.
...Why people with lung disorder face risk of severe COVID-19 found
The researchers from the Centenary Institute and the University of Technology Sydney in Australia noted that in inflammatory lung condition, COPD causes airway blockage and makes it difficult to breathe.