CMAR Director Professor Janet Lord contributed to the Taskforce’s latest report, ‘The ageing immune system and COVID-19’ which has now been published on the British Society for Immunology’s website. It is currently being sent to all parliamentarians in the House of Commons, House of Lords, the Senedd, the Scottish Parliament, and the Stormont, as well as a multitude of other stakeholders.
This report explores how ageing can affect the immune system’s response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This includes the role of ageing in susceptibility to infection, immune memory, what role other medical conditions associated with ageing have to play; what this means for the optimal treatment of COVID-19 and the vaccines that are being developed to prevent this disease