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Ask HN: Can the Immune System Fight Covid-19 Without a Temperature Increase?
- mtmail 7y agoFrom my understanding of "Reducing fever, good or bad" (Dr. John Campbell, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJqSdmNNwW4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJqSdmNNwW4) the human body needs fever to fight the viral infection.
- throw1234651234 7y agoMy confusion leads from thinking that there are two ways to fight it. One is white blood cells murdering the virus - the "ideal way". Two is the body panicking and over-heating to kill anything that can't handle the temperature (preferably mainly the virus). I am not sure if #2 works through virus-killing cells, in conjunction with them, or purely in an unrelated fashion killing everything that it can, kind of like chemo.