The mounting toll of coronavirus deaths, involving health-care workers on the front lines of the disease and older people in hospitals, raises a basic question: How does the new virus make people sick, and why does it kill some of them?
Washington Post: How the coronavirus can kill people
A laborant at the State Health Authorities of Baden-Wuerttemberg works on a test sample of a suspected case of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Stuttgart, sothern Germany on Jan. 29, 2020.
