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Today, we will be discussing upper respiratory tract infections, what benefit may be held by

probiotics and also how probiotics impact common cold and influenza

for obvious reasons, people being worried about coronavirus and COVID-19.

Let me lead by saying that we know that there is currently no known cure for COVID-19. And I want to be very careful

to try to represent the information that we'll discuss today as carefully as possible

and not fall into a category of natural medicine enthusiasts who are making claims that are not supported given

the state of the current kind of viral pandemic and associated scare.

That being said, I have known for a while and we've discussed maybe a couple of years ago now.

One interesting preliminary study that grabbed my attention,

wherein influenza virus vaccinations were found to be more effective when co-administered with

probiotics. And knowing everything that we know and that we've discussed about probiotics for

other types of infections, I was curious to give the research a closer look to see if probiotics are something to consider

as part of a preventative plan for viral infection or associated viral respiratory or even secondary bacterial issues in the lungs,

which is one of the things that COVID-19 is really problematic because of its acute respiratory

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