Resources / References:
Covid-19: Can ‘boosting’ your immune system protect you?
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200408-covid-19-can-boosting-your-immune-system-protect-you
Severe immunosuppression and not a cytokine storm characterizes COVID-19 infections
https://insight.jci.org/articles/view/140329
Boosting immune system a potential treatment strategy for COVID-19
https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/boosting-immune-system-a-potential-treatment-strategy-for-covid-19/
Garlic: An Immunity-Boosting Superstar
https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/garlic-immunity-boosting-superstar
Hill’s Cascara Quinine Cold Tablets
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_718938
Trends in Infectious Disease Mortality in the United States During the 20th Century
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/768249
Vitamin C for preventing and treating the common cold
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23440782/
Evaluation of the mRNA-1273 Vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 in Nonhuman Primates
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2024671
Clinical significance and immunobiology of IL-21 in autoimmunity
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30773373/
Fever treatments may boost flu bugs, encourage spread of infections: researchers
Evidence that Vitamin D Supplementation Could Reduce Risk of Influenza and COVID-19 Infections and Deaths
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7231123/
Severe vitamin D deficiency in patients with Kawasaki disease: a potential role in the risk to develop heart vascular abnormalities?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25994612/
Vitamin D and the Immune System
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3166406/
Mild SARS-CoV-2 infections in children might be based on evolutionary biology and linked with host reactive oxidative stress and antioxidant capabilities
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7313508/
The Queer History of Kombucha
https://food52.com/blog/20366-queer-history-of-kombucha
Current evidence on physiological activity and expected health effects of kombucha fermented beverage
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24192111/
Anti-influenza A virus effects of fructan from Welsh onion (Allium fistulosum L.)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030881461200653X
Immunity: plants as effective mediators
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24564587/
Assessment of temporally-related acute respiratory illness following influenza vaccination
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29525279/
Increased Risk of Noninfluenza Respiratory Virus Infections Associated With Receipt of Inactivated Influenza Vaccine
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3404712/
Vaccination against human influenza A/H3N2 virus prevents the induction of heterosubtypic immunity against lethal infection with avian influenza A/H5N1 virus