I've had COVID and am constantly getting colds. Did COVID harm my immune system? Am I now at risk of other infectious diseases?
- Written by Lara Herrero, Research Leader in Virology and Infectious Disease, Griffith University

So you’ve had COVID and have now recovered. You don’t have ongoing symptoms and luckily, you don’t seem to have developed long COVID.
But what impacts has COVID had on your overall immune system?
It’s early days yet. But growing evidence suggests there are changes to your immune system that may...