Immune response towards viral and bacterial infections due to COVID-19
Keywords:
pandemic, COVID-19, immune system, immunocompromised, immune responseAbstract
COVID-19 has caused drastic changes to the immune response towards viral and bacterial infections. There have been clinical studies that have shown that there are long impacting imprints on immunity relating to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that has changed the immune response. It is evident that people with immune suppressed issues are more vulnerable to more viral illnesses, than before as their environmental immunity did not develop fully due to lockdown conditions imposed. In South Africa, a country that is riddled with medical conditions such as tuberculosis, diabetes, heart diseases, cholesterol, high blood pressure, obesity, cancer, HIV and AIDS endemic which illnesses and viruses exposes these groups to be more vulnerable to contracting SARS-CoV-2 variants and influenza. The paper explores immune therapy and boosting that shall enhance compromised immune systems to overcome fatal infections. The paper postulates different strategies for international collaboration that may be undertaken to overcome the pandemic fully and permanently.
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