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Immune system protects children from severe COVID-19, Australian study finds – Sydney Morning Herald
A team of Australian researchers is a step closer to understanding one of COVID-19’s most enduring mysteries: why children do not generally get as sick as adults….
The researchers also identified that the children were likely being protected from severe COVID-19 because their innate immune systems our first line of defence when we become infected with a virus was quicker to attack the disease than an adults.
The findings support a previous Murdoch Childrens Research Institute study that found three children in a Melbourne family developed a similar immune response after prolonged exposure to the coronavirus from their parents.
Researchers have now turned their…
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