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Children’s immune systems better equipped to deal with coronavirus, new research shows – Telegraph.co.uk
Children have a much more active immune system which attacks foreign pathogens more aggressively than it does in adulthood
The immune systems of children react to the novel coronavirus more rapidly than the immune system of adults, meaning they are affected much less severely by the disease, new research has shown.
A new study published in Science Translational Medicine shows that the immune system of children is evolved to protect the body against unfamiliar pathogens by rapidly destroying them before they have the chance to harm the body. In the more developed immune system of adults, the response to new pathogen…
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