Our Understanding of Immune Issues Is Evolving: Here Are 5 Reasons Why – Infection Control Today

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The world of medicine has changed in the past half a decade. One evolving revolution is the new technology in RNA-mediated vaccines. Scientists conceived, created, tested, and delivered the COVID-19 vaccine at record speed and are now developing and testing RNA vaccines for HIV and malaria. The deep understanding of immune dysregulation as an underlying self-destructive cause of death in COVID-19 has translated to a new understanding of septic shock, adult respiratory disease syndrome, and many long-term indolent chronic diseases such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Our collective understanding of immune issues is what has changed the most. This new understanding offers immense promise as we look to eradicate diseases, solve chronic health care issues, and even tailor medicine to fit each patient's innate biological complexity. Researchers' ability to get into the minds of other experts and combine thinking with a new focus should allow for many advances. Here are five reasons our understanding of immune issues is changing and what it means for health care.

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Our Understanding of Immune Issues Is Evolving: Here Are 5 Reasons Why - Infection Control Today