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A recent common cold may nearly halve risk of COVID-19, study suggests

So Covid-Competent folks - this is going to land different in different quarters.

  • The previously evidence-supported paradigm/metaphor "the immune system is a candle not a muscle" might need to be abandoned for a third, more nuanced position[+]
  • Of course there's the need to check the paper itself, and if it's solid, to replicate / validate, but beyond that.
  • Folks with immune dysregulation can't all just catch rhinoviruses all the time to keep the system active.

[+] probably approximately: "microbes vary:

  • some are overwhelmingly beneficial, eg. in our gut;
  • some have mixed costs and benefits like rhinovirus or conditions when they become pathological like candida, and
  • some basically only have costs like influenza(?), SARS1 and SARS2, measles"

re: cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/recent

www.cidrap.umn.eduA recent common cold may nearly halve risk of COVID-19, study suggestsAmong COVID-infected participants, recent rhinovirus infection was tied to a 9.6-fold lower SARS-CoV-2 viral load, or amount of virus in the body. 
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