The immigrant community in temperate climate zones from tropical or subtropical countries is observed to have a higher infection rate ofCOVID-19. This finding has posed many questions about the vulnerability factors of ethnic minority members to COVID-19 and manyunconfirmed views are in circulation. Environmental factors appear to be the chief orchestrator of this anomaly. The recent findings aboutthe durability of COVID-19 antibodies in the infected people has put some concerns about the prospects of long-term immunisationmethods. Safe immunisation, effective medications to block the cytokine storm responsible for the complications of COVID-19 are sureways of combatting the current pandemic, but these might take some time to come into realty. So, another option to deal with the toxicpathogen is optimising our immunity which in itself is another dimension of surviving the pandemic. It seems to be a neglected orforgotten aspect of combatting the pandemic. There ought to be more public and political awareness of harmonizing immunity.Adherents of integrated medicine seem to have more awareness of different facets of immunity and they go beyond the conventionalmethods. According to the principles of integrated medicine, there may also be an extra-physiological immunity that can be brought intoaction in times of physiological crisis.
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