Does an undiagnosed atrophic gastritis (acid-free stomach) increase the risk of coronavirus infection, its complications and mortality particularly among elderly people?
Coronavirus (COVID-19)-induced respiratory infection, first reported in Wuhan City (China) December 31, 2019, has spread during the winter and spring 2020 as a global pandemic. This disease is made terrifying, mortal and panic-rising by the fact that there is not yet any vaccine against the virus and any curative therapy, leaving the only option to support the body functions by intense care thus aiming to facilitate the eventual recovery. In Finland, the first elderly patient died of coronavirus already on March 21, 2020. At this writing, the number of coronavirus-induced deaths totals 64