Scientists look beyond antibodies in virus immunity hunt

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Could the ghosts of your previous colds help protect you from COVID-19? Scientists are investigating a poorly-understood immune mechanism in the body that they hope could help efforts to curb the pandemic.

PARIS -- Could the ghosts of your previous colds help protect you from COVID-19, even if you have never been infected by the new coronavirus spreading across the planet?

With little yet known about how they operate against COVID-19, scientists are racing to fill in the gaps in our knowledge. "These most likely originate from previous infections with endemic coronaviruses," Thiel, a professor at Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies, told AFP. This study builds on research, published in the journal Cell in May by the same team, which detected these SARS-CoV-2 reacting T cells in 40 to 60 percent of people who had never had COVID-19.The vaccines currently in development for the new coronavirus seek to trigger both types of immune response.Case comparison: How do our provinces rank against U.S. states?

 

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Scientists this era don't work hard anymore. All everyone cares about now is money. So many things we are enjoying today like air travel, television, etc wouldn't be available if it was up to this era's scientists and inventors.

they were not able to find a single way to isolate coronovirus, and immunity system is not a complex thing , stop injecting drugs in kids and they wont have compromised immunity system, GMO plays an important role in compromised immunity systems .

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