What about immunity?
A study by the prestigious King’s College in London shows that antibody-based immunity to the coronavirus usually disappears after a few months.
Immunity
Research
Researchers from the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, among others, studied 175 recovered, mild Chinese covid-19 patients. This involved measuring the amount of neutralizing antibodies in the blood plasma several weeks after they had recovered from the infection. In a third of the participants, the level of these antibodies was quite low. In ten patients, the amount of antibody was not even detectable. Briefly, in the first weeks, the researchers found high antibody levels in 60% of the cases. After three months, these could only be found in 17% of the cases.
The King’s College study confirms earlier suspicions about the disappearance of antibodies to the coronavirus. The researchers regularly checked the blood for antibodies of about 70 people who tested positive for the virus. They did this until 94 days after the onset of symptoms.
Antibodies
Conclusion
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