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The Virus that Conquered the World with Prof Peter Doherty [S2 Ep.29]

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Is Covid Different From Flue?

Having a perfectly healthy immune system doesn't necessarily protect you against these tops of infections. In fact, large numbers of people who died in 19 19, 19 from influenza were very fit young adults. We divide our immune response into two parts: the innate and adaptive. And one of the problems with these infections is we can get what you call a psyticind storm. It's not the main thing, i think, in this, in this disease, but it comes on later,. And then you get the adaptive immunity that comes on later. People of any age are developing this long covert problem where they may be symptomatic or even mildly infected before symptoms appear. This can go on for months

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