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Neat News 2021-241 (added 2021-08-29)
Why are children more protected against Covid-19?
© Nevit Dilmen [CC BY-SA 3.0]
| New research finds that the immune system of a child is much more active in several ways than that of an adult. For instance, a child does not only have many more immune cells but they can also react much faster to a virus by producing type-1 interferons. This is so in case of Covid-19, but seems to be so also more universally. related: #immune_system #interferon |