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You Are Immune Against Every Disease

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell · explainer · Watch on YouTube

Biology & biotechnologyMedicine & infectious disease

What it is

Kurzgesagt's animated explainer on the human immune system, describing the body as an ecosystem and how immune defenses cope with the variety of invaders. It promotes their book Immune.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN users call it a mind-blowing and good explainer on how the immune system works, and cite it in vaccine and disease threads.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “this Kurzgeasgt video blew my mind on this topic. Our immune system really is amazing.”

    Mind-blowing look at how amazing the immune system is.

    hallway_monitor, 2022-01 · Strong recommendation · in “Multiple Sclerosis Causality”

  2. “Kurzgesagt made a good explainer video on this recently”

    Explains how the immune system handles variations of invaders.

    Wowfunhappy, 2021-12 · Recommendation · in “BNT162b2 Vaccine Booster and Mortality Due to Covid-19”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: immunology, kurzgesagt, biology, animation, health

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