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Here’s a post about the immunity due to previous infection; SARS-1 recoverees may have protection from covid; mentioned T-cell s:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3993789/posts?page=8#8
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16 July 2020 updated 17 July 2020: Daily Mail UK: Could Covid-19 immunity last for 17 YEARS? Researchers find
SARS patients still have crucial T cells from when they were infected in 2003
The SARS epidemic started in 2003. No cases have been identified since 2004
Some infected people during the outbreak still have crucial white T cells
It suggests they would be protected from SARS re-infection
It offers hope the same could be true for this virus, called SARS-2
By VANESSA CHALMERS
The research, by scientists in Singapore, offers hope the same may be true for SARS-CoV-2 — the name of the coronavirus behind the pandemic...
Scientists at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology in California have also previously said it is ‘tempting to speculate’ that having had a cold could offer some form of immunity.
They found blood samples from people donated in 2015-2018 contained T cells that recognised SARS-Cov-2 and responded to it, publishing their findings in the journal Cell...
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8529429/Could-immunity-17-YEARS-Singaporean-researchers-SARS-patients-crucial-T-cells.html
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