A new study found that immunity to coronavirus for those who were previously infected is still strong 8 months later.
Understanding how the immune system remembers the coronavirus is the key to “improve diagnostics and vaccines, and to assess the likely future course of the COVID-19 pandemic, ”the study says.
Blood samples from nearly 200 patients in the study published by Science magazine showed that it was not just the antibodies that remembered the virus. Multiple parts of the immune system are remembered and this memory helps the patient to fight the virus quickly if he contracts COVID-19 again.
Coronavirus vaccines are reaching millions of people in the United States, but the number of cases remains high in some areas of the country.
90 percent of the patients in the study showed that their immunity to the virus was strong and long-lasting. There are concerns about how this would apply to the new strand of coronavirus that started in the UK and reached several states.
The study authors believe that this new tape will not go against the natural immunity you get after contracting the virus, because the new tape has not mutated enough that the human body could not recognize it.
The immune system attacks different parts of the virus when it enters the human body and most of those parts have not been affected by the new mutation that we are seeing coming out of the UK.
Although most appear to have immunity that can last up to 8 months after contracting the virus, there are “different patterns of immune memory in different individuals,” according to the study.
Vaccines have been discarded in states across the country and Joe Biden
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