Unraveling the mystery of why children are better protected from Covid than adults

The immune system uses a special mechanism to protect children from novel viruses—and it typically saves them from a severe course of Covid-19 in two different ways. In the mucous membranes of their airways, it is much more active than that of adults. In children, this system reacts much faster to viruses that it has never encountered, such as pandemic pathogens. At least,

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