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Covid-19 : viral infection less frequent at high altitude, why ?

An article published in Frontiers in Physiology tends to show that populations living above 2500 meters are less prone to Covid-19. Adaptation to oxygen deprivation would reduce SARS-CoV-2 infection through a complex mechanism involving the renin-angiotensin system that Jean-Marc Sabatier has often described here.