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How does the immune system mobilize in response to a COVID-19 infection or a vaccine? 5 essential reads

  • Written by Amanda Mascarelli, Senior Health and Medicine Editor
imageThe COVID-19 pandemic has taught most people more than they ever expected to know about immunology.Membio/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Heading into the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have become amateur immunologists, having conversations at the dinner table and in the grocery store aisle about mRNA vaccines, variants, breakthrough...

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