Data Shows Unique COVID-19 Patterns in Childhood

Sep 5, 2021

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At present (September 2021), the direct targets of COVID-19 have been evidently clear. COVID-19 is causing the greatest threat to those of advanced age and with comorbidities. Despite this fact, there may be additional information gleaned from the accumulating stacks of clinical COVID-19 cases being aggregated around the world. A closer look at this data in sum may help researchers learn new insights about this fast spreading and quickly mutating virus. Moreover, learning about COVID-19 and its patterns may help scientists formulate better treatments and more effective vaccines. Researchers—from Buckingham Browne and Nichols School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and Biotein—conducted a new study in an effort to decipher clinical COVID-19 data from multiple countries. Their aim was to learn additional information about the impact of COVID-19 across all age distributions, including childhood. The team wrote a trending research paper that was published by Aging (Aging-US) in August 2021, and entitled, “COVID-19 mortality rate in children is U-shaped.” Of note, one of the four authors of this research paper is the first author (and prolific teenager) named Nina Khera. This young woman (merely 15 years old) is a student and longevity researcher that is interested in preventing age-related diseases, including those related to brain aging and COVID-19. Khera is also the co-founder of a Canadian biotech company called Biotein. Full blog - https://www.impactjournals.com/journals/blog/aging/trending-with-impact-data-shows-unique-covid-19-patterns-in-childhood/ Sign up for free Altmetric alerts about this article - https://oncotarget.altmetric.com/details/email_updates?id=10.18632%2Foncotarget.203442 DOI - https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.203442 Full text - https://www.aging-us.com/article/203442/text Correspondence to: Vadim N. Gladyshev email: vgladyshev@rics.bwh.harvard.edu Keywords: mortality, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, pediatrics, aging About Aging-US Launched in 2009, Aging-US publishes papers of general interest and biological significance in all fields of aging research and age-related diseases, including cancer—and now, with a special focus on COVID-19 vulnerability as an age-dependent syndrome. Topics in Aging-US go beyond traditional gerontology, including, but not limited to, cellular and molecular biology, human age-related diseases, pathology in model organisms, signal transduction pathways (e.g., p53, sirtuins, and PI-3K/AKT/mTOR, among others), and approaches to modulating these signaling pathways. Please visit our website at http://www.Aging-US.com or connect with us on: Twitter - https://twitter.com/AgingJrnl Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/AgingUS/ SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/aging-us YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/agingus LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/aging Aging-US is published by Impact Journals, LLC please visit http://www.ImpactJournals.com or connect with @ImpactJrnls Media Contact 18009220957 MEDIA@IMPACTJOURNALS.COM