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A number of factors can increase the risk of severe illness with COVID-19. This means that certain groups within society are at greater risk and are t…

COVID-19 occurs in all age groups. However, there are differences with regard to its frequency and severity. Most of the COVID-19 cases in Germany so…

One problem is that patients who have mild COVID-19 at home often do not notice when their illness turns into sepsis. Sepsis is always an emergency. T…

COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by a virus called SARS-CoV-2 which primarily strikes the airways but can also affect other organs. The first…

No, COVID-19 is not a hereditary disease. However, it is not impossible that a pregnant woman could pass on the illness to her unborn child. Individua…

The infection is mainly passed on through virus-containing droplets and aerosols in the air we breathe. When we breathe, speak, sing, shout, sneeze an…

COVID-19 and the flu are both infectious diseases of the airways and they cause similar symptoms: coughing, sneezing, runny nose, fever, headache and…

At the time of writing (April 2022), more than 500 million people throughout the world, 24 million of them in Germany alone, have caught COVID-19 sinc…

SARS-COV-2 is a pathogenic virus belonging to the coronavirus family. It takes its name from the crown-like spikes on the virus envelope, “corona” bei…