Lessons For Human Holobiont Medicine in The Era of SARS-Cov-2 |Biomedgrid

The current SARS-CoV-2 (Covid 19) pandemic has been tragic but also instructional. It revealed the flaws in life-course health management that caused aging populations to lack resiliency, carry multiple inflammation-driven noncommunicable diseases and be evermore dependent upon medical/caregiver services as well as lifelong drug prescriptions. We have witnessed decades of medical symptom management for diseases like asthma instead of actual medical cures. The increased disease burden combined with underlying misregulated inflammation among the aged population created the tipping point for this pandemic.