FROM THE EDITOR
Why are there so many different COVID-19 symptoms? Why do some people seem to get it without experiencing sickness at all? How are some people already immune to the disease? There are still so many questions surrounding COVID-19 and how it affects our bodies. We’re witnessing what happens to our immune systems when it’s introduced to a completely new, and aggressively infectious, disease.
The truth is our immune systems aren’t as straightforward as we like to think. Over millions of years, our bodies have collectively learned to shield themselves from many of the microorganisms we share our lives with, with modern medicine bolstering our defences in the last century. But, faced with something totally novel, we can see exactly how delicately complex our immune system is. The good news is that scientists are discovering the intricacies of how our bodies deal with COVID-19 at an unprecedented speed. Find out what we’ve discovered so far and why there are reasons to be hopeful over on p48.
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