Good follow up on T-cell immunity and antibodies from yesterday
3 interesting takeaways:
1) Infection with SARS-CoV-2 induces virus-specific T cells.
2) Patients recovered from SARS 17 years ago still possess virus-specific memory T cells displaying cross-reactivity to SARS-CoV-2.
3) Over 50% of donors with no infection or contact with SARS-CoV-1/2 harbor expandable T cells cross-reactive to SARS-CoV-2 likely induced by contact or infection with other coronavirus strains.
This doesn't mean having T cells will make you immune to Covid. We just don't know that yet. However, this information COULD explain why ~50% are asymptomatic.
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Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2550-z
Posted: 07/15/2020 at 09:07AM