With the recent reports of COVID-19 causing T-cell exhaustion, and the comparison to AIDS causing T-cell exhaustion can someone explain what this is and what long term affects it will have on a person/population?
EDIT: [LINK](https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.18.20024364v1) talking about t-cell exhaustion and covid-19
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The immune system can get tired too. At a certain point, the immune system just gives up and doesn’t fight the infection anymore. This is seen in other disease states like cancer and sepsis.
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