In this podcast, Sara Booth, University of Cambridge, talks to Professor Sarah Rowlands (Florey Professor of Infection and Immunity,University of Sheffield and Honorary Consultant Physician Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford), who specialises in infectious diseases and has a special interest in immunity to viruses, about COVID-19 and immunity/Lupus in one of two podcasts aimed at people living with lupus - part 2 out soon.
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Although it was made for and by lupus agencies, this introduction explains how viruses and the immune system work, what immunosuppression is, what Covid-19 is, how it is related to other viruses, the difference between viruses and bacteria in the body, the hope for a vaccine and what the dreaded "herd immunity" means. It isn't specifically for any one illness.
There is another installment to come.