{"id":3507,"date":"2020-09-25T17:25:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T17:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3507"},"modified":"2020-09-25T17:25:49","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T17:25:49","slug":"why-some-get-bad-covid-and-others-dont-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3507","title":{"rendered":"Why Some Get Bad COVID, and Others Don&#8217;t\u2014Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;&#8221;From the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists baffled by the disease&#8217;s ferocity have wondered whether the body&#8217;s vanguard virus fighter, a molecular messenger called type I interferon, is missing in action in some severe cases. Two papers published online in\u00a0<em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2020\/09\/hidden-immune-weakness-found-14-gravely-ill-covid-19-patients\" target=\"_blank\">Science<\/a><\/em>\u00a0this week confirm that suspicion. They reveal that in a significant minority of patients with serious COVID-19, the interferon response has been crippled by genetic flaws or by rogue antibodies that attack interferon itself,&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/why-bad-covid-others-dont-110212299.html\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/lifestyle\/why-bad-covid-others-dont-110212299.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8220;&#8221;From the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists baffled by the disease&#8217;s ferocity have wondered whether the body&#8217;s vanguard virus fighter, a molecular messenger called type I interferon, is missing in action in some severe cases. Two papers published online in Science this week confirm that suspicion. They reveal that in a significant minority of patients with serious COVID-19, the interferon response has been crippled by genetic flaws or by rogue antibodies that attack interferon itself,&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483],"class_list":["post-3507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3508,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3507\/revisions\/3508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}