Immune response might be for signaling to others for help, not to protect your body

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Immune response might be for signaling to others for help, not to protect your body

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.

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