{
  "id": 15125500,
  "title": "Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 reshapes upper airway immunity in children",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/16/evolution-of-sars-cov-2-reshapes-upper-airway-immunity-in-children",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-10-16T00:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "bioRxiv",
    "slug": "biorxiv",
    "url": "https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.10.15.759133v1?rss=1"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Children were relatively protected from severe COVID-19 during the early pandemic a phenomenon linked to rapid and heightened innate immune responses in the upper-airways. Although adult upper-airway antiviral responses varied across successive SARS-CoV-2 waves, whether viral evolution similarly reshaped pediatric mucosal immunity remains unclear. Here we used single-cell transcriptomics to…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}