A new study found that coronavirus immunity for those previously infected is still strong 8 months later.
Understanding how the immune system remembers the coronavirus is key to “improving diagnostics and vaccines, and for assessing the likely future course of the COVID-19 pandemic, “the study says.
Blood samples from nearly 200 patients in the study published by the journal Science showed that not only the antibodies remembered the virus. Multiple parts of the immune system are remembered, and this memory helps a patient fight off the virus quickly if they contract 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 percent 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 strand of the coronavirus that started in the UK and made its way to multiple states.
The authors of the study believe that this new strand does not conflict with the natural immunity you get after contracting the virus, because the new strand has not mutated enough to where the human body couldn’t recognize it.
The immune system attacks different parts of the virus when it enters the human body and most of those parts are unaffected by the new mutation we are seeing coming from 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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