id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
cord-275569-i5y23mmz	de Bernardis, E.	A putative role for the tobacco mosaic virus in smokers’ resistance to COVID-19	2020-07-31		.txt	text/plain	1501	47	31	Though it is intuitively tempting, on the basis of physiopathological common knowledge, to predict a greater risk of contracting the SARS-CoV-2 infection in tobacco smokers, an analysis of studies from various countries shows that hospitalized COVID-19 patients have a lower, and apparently inversely proportional, rate of current tobacco smoking, in comparison with the respective general population, although once the disease has developed meta-analyses suggest that smoking is associated with a worse prognosis Apart from nicotine or other chemicals contained in tobacco smoke, we propose that a single-stranded RNA virus that infects tobacco leaves, tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), might be implicated in this effect.	cache/cord-275569-i5y23mmz.txt	txt/cord-275569-i5y23mmz.txt
