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A preprint, an unpublished non-peer reviewed study, looks at the immune response to COVID-19 following natural infection.
Dr Alexander Edwards, Associate Professor in Biomedical Technology, Reading School of Pharmacy, University of Reading, said:
“The human immune system is beautiful and powerful. Every individual has many ways to respond, which overlap and strengthen each other. The science of immunology has examined many of these pathways in great detail. But as each person responds slightly differently, it can be difficult to map out how these pathways affect illness or health. This paper shows how patterns can be spotted, but is only a step towards being able to predict if someone is protected from reinfection. The great news is that we don’t need to do this – because vaccines drive even more powerful immune responses in everyone. So the message is clear: we all have glorious, complex, immune systems – let’s all train them with two vaccine jabs, regardless of whether we’ve already been infected.”
Preprint (not a paper): ‘Divergent trajectories of antiviral memory after SARS-Cov-2 infection’ by Adriana Tomic et al. This work is not peer-reviewed.
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-612205/v1
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