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Severe COVID-19: Study investigates a possible underlying mechanism

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New research has found a link between increased COVID-19 severity and higher blood levels of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs).

NETs usually help defeat infections, but in some COVID-19 cases, they may have something to do with disease severity. In a new study, researchers from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Northwell Health in New York City, and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, also in New York, NY, have made a discovery that could help advance scientists’ knowledge about how COVID-19 progresses.

Their study paper, which appears in the journal JCI Insight, reports a link between experiencing a severe form of COVID-19 and having increased levels of NETs in the blood.

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