Timing of immune response to COVID-19 may contribute to disease severity

Sunday, May 3, 2020 - 08:50 in Health & Medicine

A new USC study suggests that temporarily suppressing the body’s immune system during the early stages of COVID-19 could help a patient avoid severe symptoms. That’s because the research, just published online in the Journal of Medical Virology, shows that an interaction between the body’s two main lines of defense may be causing the immune system to […]

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