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University of Connecticut: Study Seeks to Learn Why COVID-19 Is So Deadly for the Old
March 31, 2021
STORRS, Connecticut, March 31 (TNSRes) -- The University of Connecticut issued the following news:

COVID-19 has scourged the world for more than a year, but we still don't know why the disease is so much deadlier for many older adults and for those with chronic diseases. Now, a team of researchers from UConn Health and The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) are using the COVID vaccines as a window into why the virus gets more dangerous the older we get.

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