Stefan R Bornstein, Karin Voit-Bak, Dieter Schmidt, Henning Morawietz, Alexander Benjamin Bornstein, Waldimir Balanzew, Ulrich Julius, Roman N Rodionov, Anne Maria Biener, Jun Wang, Klaus-Martin Schulte, Peter Krebs, Günter Vollmer, R Straube
The severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic affects people around the world. However, there have been striking differences in the number of infected individuals and deaths in different countries. Particularly, within Central Europe in countries that are similar in ethnicity, age, and medical standards and have performed similar steps of containment, such differences in mortality rates remain inexplicable. We suggest to consider and explore environmental factors to explain these intriguing variations...
July 2020: Hormone and Metabolic Research