The reason why children are easily able to get rid of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is due to a super-efficient innate immune system in their airways, as was hypothesised earlier (not from ‘less ACE2 receptors’).
Innate immunity is our “rapid response unit”.
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nature.com/articles/s4158…
Innate immunity is our “rapid response unit”.
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nature.com/articles/s4158…
Innate immunity refers to those defence mechanisms that are the “first responders”- even before an exact ID of the attacker is known.
Adults respond less efficiently.
As a result, there is an imbalance between the various departments of our immune system, which isn’t good.
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Adults respond less efficiently.
As a result, there is an imbalance between the various departments of our immune system, which isn’t good.
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SARS-CoV-2 virus is super-replicating, and turns off our innate immunity early (interferons are part of this) to aid the “stealth factor”.
It is harder to do so in children - who have a hyper-alert system that outperforms adults in the 1st 4 days of infection, authors find.
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It is harder to do so in children - who have a hyper-alert system that outperforms adults in the 1st 4 days of infection, authors find.
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As a result, children get rid of this virus faster and earlier than adults do.
Children are naturally tuned to anticipate new pathogens than older people are. The above findings confirm that.
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Children are naturally tuned to anticipate new pathogens than older people are. The above findings confirm that.
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