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Why Do Some People Never Get Covid?

Daniela J. Lamas The New York Times
Researchers throughout the globe are asking, and attempting to answer, why one parent without identifiable risk factors becomes critically ill while their spouse and children never test positive or are able to manage their symptoms at home.

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How the Immune System Actually Works

The human immune system is the most complex biological system we know, after the human brain. What happens when your body is invaded and your first lines of defenses are engaged in a fight for life and death?

The Evolving Science of the Coronavirus and Children

Apoorva Mandavilli, Robin McKie The New York Times
Three articles. Researchers are finding that children of all ages become infected and spread the virus to others but that children do respond differently immunologically to this virus, and it seems to be protecting the kids.
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