AS THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC CONTINUES TO CLAIM LIVES AROUND THE WORLD, RESEARCH HAS FOCUSED ON THE IMMUNE SYSTEM’S ROLE IN PATIENTS WHO BECOME SERIOUSLY ILL.

A POPULAR THEORY HAS IT THAT THE IMMUNE SYSTEM AFTER FIGHTING THE VIRUS FOR SEVERAL DAYS, PRODUCES A SO - CALLED CYTO-KINE STORM THAT CAN RESULT IN POTENTIALLY FATAL ORGAN DAMAGE.

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BUT NEW FINDINGS FROM A TEAM OF RESEARCHERS LED BY SCIENTISTS AT THE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE IN ST. LOUIS POINT TO ANOTHER THEORY AND SUGGESTS THAT PATIENTS BECOME ILL BECAUSE THEIR IMMUNE SYSTEMS CAN’T DO ENOUGH TO PROTECT THEM FROM THE VIRUS.

THEY SUGGEST THAT BOOSTING IMMUNITY COULD BE A POTENTIAL TREATMENT STRATEGY FOR COVID-19.

IN TODAYS EPISODE WE CONTINUE OUR FOCUS ON THE IMMUNE SYSTEM BY TAKING A LOOK AT A COUPLE OF PERSPECTIVES THAT SUPPORT THE ARGUMENT TO BUILD THE IMMUNE SYSTEM AS PART OF THE SOLUTION TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC.