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Some percent of confirmed recovered cases never develop antibodies it seems.
by azinman2 7y ago
Some percent of confirmed recovered cases never develop antibodies it seems.
- mabbo 7y agoThen how did they recover? If your body has no antibodies to the virus then why would the virus ever stop spreading within you?
- frank2 7y agoAntibodies are produced by the humoral arm of the immune system, but there is another arm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell-mediated_immunity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell-mediated_immunity Basically this other arm tells infected cells to kill themselves, and they comply.
- aaron_m04 7y agoThe cells that generate the antibodies may die later.
- danieltillett 7y agoThis is an artefact of the current antibody tests, which mostly only sample a response to a single antigen. Which viral proteins you mount a response against will vary from individual to individual. To really know if you have no antibody response you need to test for a response to multiple antigens.
- azinman2 7y agohttps://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/13/who-officials-say-its-unclear-whether-recovered-coronavirus-patients-are-immune-to-second-infection.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/13/who-officials-say-its-unclea...