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COVID s deadliest day: 3,300 people die from coronavirus on day FDA finally approves Pfizer vaccine
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Rebecca Morelle, BBC s science correspondent
Why some people with coronavirus have no symptoms and others get extremely ill is one of the pandemic s biggest puzzles.
Medical staff care for a patient in intensive care in a hospital in Houston, Texas.
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A study published in Nature of more than 2200 intensive care patients has identified specific genes that may hold the answer.
They make some people more susceptible to severe Covid-19 symptoms.
The findings shed light on where the immune system goes wrong, which could help identify new treatments.
These will continue to be needed even though vaccines are being developed, says Prof Kenneth Baillie, a consultant in medicine at the Royal Infirmary in Edinburgh, who led the Genomicc project.
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Medical staff members Flor Trevino (L) and Susan Paradela attempt to change the bed sheet of a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) at the United Memorial Medical Center on December 7, 2020 in Houston, Texas. Go Nakamura/Getty Images/AFP
American regulators were due to meet Thursday to assess the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for emergency approval, as the country logged one of its worst-ever daily Covid-19 death tolls with more than 3,000 people lost to the pandemic.
Other northern hemisphere countries were also grappling with a winter virus surge, as the number of global infections raced towards 70 million with more than 1.5 million deaths.
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Medical staff members Flor Trevino (L) and Susan Paradela attempt to change the bed sheet of a patient in the COVID-19 intensive care unit (ICU) at the United Memorial Medical Center on December 7, 2020 in Houston, Texas. Go Nakamura/Getty Images/AFP
American regulators were due to meet Thursday to assess the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for emergency approval, as the country logged one of its worst-ever daily Covid-19 death tolls with more than 3,000 people lost to the pandemic.
Other northern hemisphere countries were also grappling with a winter virus surge, as the number of global infections raced towards 70 million with more than 1.5 million deaths.
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