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Researchers from Rockefeller University in New York stated that the immune system not only remembers the virus, but also develops the quality of antibodies after recovery, according to the British newspaper “The Guardian”.
The immune system also prepares the body to launch a fast and powerful attack in response to any new virus attack.
For his part, the head of the University’s Department of Molecular Immunology and the study’s lead researcher, Michael Nussenwig, said: “This is very good news,” noting that expectations show that people can produce antibodies quickly and fight infections. in a large number of cases.
It is unclear how long the immune system’s memory that retains the shape of the Corona virus lasts, but Nussenzweig estimated that the immune system provides protection that lasts for years.
This explains that the number of people infected with the virus more than once is considered a small number.
When a person is infected with the coronavirus, the human immune system launches a multiple attack, targeting the virus, and the “T” cells represent a form of protection, as they seek out and destroy the infected cells, in an attempt to contain the outbreak. of the virus. As for the “B” cells, they release the antibodies into the blood.
As soon as the infection ends in the body, the immune system stops fighting, but remembers the infection by storing information about it in the “T” and “B” cells.
This study included 87 people infected with Coronavirus, and the researchers said that the antibodies decreased, falling back by more than a fifth of the maximum level in 6 months.
When examining the immune systems of the individuals in the sample, the researchers noted that six months after infection, the antibodies produced by the “B” cells had evolved to become more powerful than before.
It is reported that months ago it became clear that the pandemic could weaken and destroy the immune system in some people, ultimately leading to more damage to the body than the virus itself.
Corona is reported to have infected 50,255,095 people so far and killed 1,256,123 worldwide.