"Fast, faster, and fastest: science on the run during COVID-19 drama"—"do not forget the liver"

Excerpt

Who did ever think that the twenty-first century with the best of scientific innovations and health care system would witness a historic pandemic of a novel Corona virus, SARS-CoV-2, which is crumbling humanity globally. Each day we are confronted with rising statistics and at the time of this writing, the global watch has registered more than 1249107 confirmed cases of Coronavirus disease or COVID-19. On a positive side, 256,059 (20%) have fully recovered and on a darker side 67,999 (5.4%) precious lives have been lost according to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center until April 5 [1]. Much of the scientific data have come from China and together with the emerging data from the West where old age has been unequivocally identified as the major risk factor with increased mortality due to COVID-19. …