Children can also be infected with the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, but have a substantially lower risk for developing severe COVID-19 disease compared to adults. A team of scientists from the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH), Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, University Leipzig Medical Center and the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg used single-cell analyses to determine what causes this difference.

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