NIAID Now: New NIAID Study Examines Immune Responses in People Hospitalized with COVID-19

3D print of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle. Credit: NIH

Today, a new NIAID-supported study has begun to track the immune responses of people hospitalized with COVID-19 in 10 research sites across the United States. Investigators in NIAID’s Human Immunology Project Consortium (HIPC) in collaboration with researchers in the Asthma and Allergic Diseases Clinical Research Consortium (AADCRC) and other NIAID-funded groups, aim to determine how certain immunological measures correspond to, or may even predict, the clinical severity of COVID-19. Data collected in the Immunophenotyping Assessment in a COVID-19 Cohort, or IMPACC, study will help inform recommendations for COVID-19 care and, hopefully, identify new targets and optimal timing for experimental treatments.