Ageing is one of the main risk factors for Covid-19. In this paper, we delineate four alternative conceptualisations of ageing, each of which determines different understandings of its causal role to the susceptibility to Covid-19 as well as to the severity of its symptoms and adverse health outcomes.
Covid-19 and ageing: four alternative conceptual frameworks / D. Serpico, M.C. Amoretti. - In: HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE LIFE SCIENCES. - ISSN 0391-9714. - 43:3(2021), pp. 84.1-84.4. [10.1007/s40656-021-00439-x]
Covid-19 and ageing: four alternative conceptual frameworks
D. Serpico
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2021
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Ageing is one of the main risk factors for Covid-19. In this paper, we delineate four alternative conceptualisations of ageing, each of which determines different understandings of its causal role to the susceptibility to Covid-19 as well as to the severity of its symptoms and adverse health outcomes.
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