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A healthy microbiome builds a strong immune system that could help defeat COVID-19

  • Written by Ana Maldonado-Contreras, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachusetts Medical School
imageThe microbes living in the gut are key to good health.Dr_Microbe/iStock/Getty Images Plus

You may not know it, but you have an army of microbes living inside of you that are essential for fighting off threats, including the virus that causes COVID-19.

In the past two decades scientists have learned our bodies are home to more bacterial cells than...

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