Your Immune System Could Be Hurting You as a Way of Signalling to Others – ScienceAlert

A major debate during the pandemic, and in infectious disease research more broadly, is why infected people die. No virus “wants” to kill anyone, as an epidemiologist once said to me. Like any other form of life, a virus’s goal is only to survive and reproduce.
A growing body of evidence instead suggests that the human immune system which the science writer Ed Yong says is “where intuition goes to die” may itself be responsible for many people’s deaths.
In an effort to find and kill the invading…

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