COVID-19 has spread across the world and WHO has declared it as
a pandemic. Its symptoms affects strongly the respiratory
functions. Some of the physiological events that are occuring due
to the COVID-19 are:
- The mostly impacted age group among humans are the old age
people. This is one of the physiological changes associated with
ageing.
- The decreased immune system is yet another physiological change
that is associated with covid-19.
- The multimorbidity of the virus that exposes the older adults
to be more prone to the infection due to COVID-19 and hence impacts
them severely to suffer during the disease.
- The pregnant women also experience the physiological changes
which make them vulnerble of getting infected with the viral
respiratory disease and infections caused by COVID-19.