How will isolation affect long-term immunity?
How will isolation affect long-term immunity? Playing dirty: as humans evolved, our immune systems learned to cope with the microbes around us in the natural world. Illustration: Lehel Kovács/The Observer Playing dirty: as humans evolved, our immune systems learned to cope with the microbes around us in the natural world. Illustration: Lehel Kovács/The Observer Healthy immune systems work best when exposed to microbes. So what will lockdown have done to our resistance to germs? Sun 16 May 2021 05.00 EDT Every time you kiss another human being intimately for 10 seconds, more than 80m bacter...