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Podcast: Raising Health
Episode: Journal Club: Why do only some people get severe COVID-19?
Description: One of the enduring mysteries of COVID-19 is why some people get a severe disease that can be fatal, whereas the majority experience a very mild or even asymptomatic disease. On this episode of the Bio Eats World Journal Club, host Lauren Richardson (@lr_bio) discussed this discrepancy with Dr. Helen Su of the NIH and co-leader of the COVID Human Genetic Effort. This international collaboration set out to investigate whether there is a genetic component to severe COVID and published the first of their findings in two articles in Science. Both papers demonstrate that dysfunction in a very...