The Pandemic's Biggest Mystery Is Our Own Immune System - The Atlantic

The Pandemic's Biggest Mystery Is Our Own Immune System - The Atlantic

The wildly complicated immune response

Our immune system’s response to COVID-19 is one of the biggest outstanding questions of the pandemic. Understanding it is key to helping people to get better, developing a vaccine and bringing the global spread of the disease to heel. The problem is that the human immune system is wildly complicated, and SARS-CoV-2 seems to interact with it in some unusual ways.
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