{"id":1754,"date":"2020-04-29T12:30:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T02:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/?p=1754"},"modified":"2020-04-30T13:16:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T03:16:59","slug":"covid-19-kids-what-can-immune-system-differences-between-children-and-adults-tell-us-about-susceptibility-to-severe-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/2020\/04\/29\/covid-19-kids-what-can-immune-system-differences-between-children-and-adults-tell-us-about-susceptibility-to-severe-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 Kids:  What can immune system differences between children and adults tell us about susceptibility to severe COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/413379557?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 is almost always a mild disease in children. Adults are much more likely to become very unwell or die than children. \u00a0Why is this so?<\/p>\n<p>Can immunology explain the differences in COVID-19 disease severity between children and adults?<\/p>\n<p>What do we know about the immunological responses to SARS-CoV-2 and why it is so important to understand this in the context of vaccine development?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve heard about serological tests and \u201cimmunity passports\u201d but are the current serological tests any good?<\/p>\n<p>To address these questions, we will hear from 3 of our scientists.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speakers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Dan Pellicci &#8211; <\/strong>Group Leader, Cellular Immunology Group, Murdoch Children\u2019s Research Institute (MCRI)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Phil Sutton <\/strong>&#8211; Group Leader, Mucosal Immunology, MCRI<\/p>\n<p><strong>Associate Professor Paul Licciardi <\/strong>&#8211; Team Leader, New Vaccines, MCRI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COVID-19 is almost always a mild disease in children. Adults are much more likely to become very unwell or die than children. \u00a0Why is this so?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":97,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7947,7930,12691,7935,7933,12690,5270,5658],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-and-research","category-general-interest","category-global-health","category-immunology","category-infectious-diseases","category-public-health","category-research","category-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/97"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1755,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1754\/revisions\/1755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}