Young, healthy people are dying from a COVID-19 effect called a "cytokine storm." Basically, you make it off a ventilator (maybe!), you get your appetite back a little, you think you're turning a corner, and then your immune system rips through your lung tissue and you drown.
— Bess Kalb (@bessbell) May 3, 2020
Science News Date: December 20, 2016 Source: Georgetown University Medical Center Summary: Sunlight, through a mechanism separate than vitamin D production, energizes T cells that play a central role in human immunity, researchers have found. The findings suggest how the skin, the body’s largest organ, stays alert to the many microbes that can nest there. Read full story: Sunlight offers surprise benefit: It energizes infection fighting T cells
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