Open AccessCOVID‐19: is fibrosis the killer?
Author(s) -
Leask Andrew
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of cell communication and signaling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.329
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 1873-961X
pISSN - 1873-9601
DOI - 10.1007/s12079-020-00569-0
Subject(s) - covid-19 , fibrosis , medicine , virology , pandemic , pulmonary fibrosis , immunology , pathology , bioinformatics , biology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak
COVID‐19 is a respiratory disease. A recent report in Lancet examined, retrospectively, 137 patients with COVD‐19. Patients that died had elevated IL‐6 levels and acute respiratory distress syndrome. These data have obvious implications for how to control mortality in COVID‐19.