The amount of medical misinformation out there right now is staggering. Would-be alternative health celebrities see the COVID-19 pandemic as their opportunity to make a name for themselves and increase their fame and fortune, and their videos seem to range from 5 minutes of mostly benign half truths, to one I saw today that was 48 minutes of crazed rantings. As a Physician, I despair of being able to address even a fraction of the misinformation my friends and family are being exposed to right now.
But you have to start somewhere. One of the biggest areas around which falsehood and distortion crops up consistently is the role of your immune system in fighting disease in general, and in protecting you against COVID-19 in particular. And in this area there are two dangerous distortions that seem to crop up again and again. But to address those, I think it’s important that we think of the immune system as a Death Star.
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