Covid: Clot ‘logic` for low fatality rate in India
(WorldNews India)

Cancer specialists have proposed a physiological explanation for India’s intriguingly low Covid-19 mortality rate, suggesting the lower risk of developing blood clots in deep veins in warm climates might be shielding the coronavirus-infected from death. That people in tropical countries have a low predisposition to deep-vein clots has been documented for decades. This could be one of the factors underlying the striking geographic differences in Covid-19 mortality, doctors at the Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, said. Studies in China,...