A new study found that coronavirus immunity for those who have been previously infected is still strong eight months later.
Understanding how the immune system remembers coronavirus is key to “improve diagnoses and vaccines and assess the possible future course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the study he says.
Blood samples from nearly 200 patients in the study published in the journal Science showed that not only antibodies were reminiscent of the virus. Several parts of the immune system are remembered and this memory helps a patient fight the virus quickly if he or she gets COVID-19 again.
Coronavirus vaccines reach millions of people in the United States, but the number of cases remains high in some parts of the country.
90% of the patients in the study showed that their immunity to the virus was long-lasting and strong. There are concerns about how this would apply to the new coronavirus chain that began in the UK and went to several states.
The study authors believe that this new chain will not go against the natural immunity you get after contracting the virus because the new chain has not mutated enough to the point where 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 these parts have not been affected by the new mutation we see coming out of the UK.
While 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.
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