Discover the meaning and types of legal immunity, including witness, sovereign, and diplomatic immunity, and learn about associated risks and special considerations.

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers assessed whether loss-of-function (pLOF) variants of type I interferon (IFN) immunity genes are associated with life-threatening ...

Mixing vaccines could offer a stronger immune boost, preliminary data suggests. With the FDA gearing up to decide if all Americans need booster shots, some researchers are pointing to preliminary data ...

When SARS-CoV-2 was a brand-new virus, it met little resistance in immune-naïve hosts—that is, us. Vaccines, boosters, and infections have increased our immunity to varying degrees. But how much ...

Results from a preclinical study in mice, led by EPFL, and a collaborative clinical study in patients show that the type 2 immune response – associated with parasitic infection and thought to play a ...

The Food and Drug Administration authorized an updated formula for mRNA COVID-19 vaccines to adjust for the XBB1.5 variant this fall amid a surge in cases right after summer. With a long schedule of ...

People can develop temporary natural immunity after recovering from COVID-19. However, vaccines are the best way to train the immune system to recognize viruses. When a vaccinated person encounters ...

Herd immunity is important because it defines when a whole community is protected. That includes people who haven't caught the disease, people who had the illness and recovered, and people who got a ...

Despite attempts to claim otherwise, Donald Trump's demand for absolute immunity for any criminal acts committed while president goes far beyond the qualified immunity currently extended to police ...