How does the immune system mobilize in response to a COVID-19 infection or a vaccine? 5 essential reads
How does the immune system mobilize in response to a COVID-19 infection or a vaccine? 5 essential reads
By Amanda Mascarelli
Senior Health and
Medicine Editor
Heading into the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have become amateur immunologists, having conversations at the dinner table and in the grocery store aisle about mRNA vaccines, variants, breakthrough infections, “waning” immunity, herd immunity, endemic viruses, booster shots and much more.
Many of the stories that we’ve published over the past two years here at The Conversation have stemmed from our own head-scratching questions that came up in our morning news meetings or were posed to us directly by curious readers. We sought out scholars who could take our readers on deep dives into immunology and virology to help demystify these sometimes confusing, conflicting and taxing science-based questions.
Here are five stories from The Conversation’s archives that highlight critical insights that we as editors and readers have gained thanks to COVID-19, and that will no doubt continue to be an important part of our pandemic lexicon.
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