Friday, April 10, 2020

Taking stock - btbirkett@gmail.com - Gmail

Taking stock - btbirkett@gmail.com - Gmail



...And the answer to the riddle of Covid-19 immunity may not be in the antibodies at all. Instead, it could be found in the T-cells, white blood cells that originate in bone marrow and aren't in the plasma of recovered patients. Chinese scientists said they found a surprisingly low level of antibodies in some recovered patients. Even so, Nussenzweig said that it's likely, though not certain, that recovered patients have at least short-term immunity to reinfection.

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