More Virology 101:
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Black Irish Rose
October 4, 2021 12:15 pm
Reply to ModernThrowback
I don’t think natural immunity wanes, but what does wane are the number of antibodies actively circulating in our system for any given encountered and defeated disease. AND it is a good thing we do NOT carry around high numbers of antibodies from every virus we encountered and defeated because our lymph nodes (located all over the body) would each have to be the size softballs! We would look like walking tumors, globs protruding out of our necks, underarms, groin area, to name just a few places……
No, what happens is the antibodies hang around after initial infection and disease elimination. When the “all clear” is given, antibodies do decrease, but T cells and B cells take over. Both are memory cells but function differently. The T cells are very small in number, and they circulate, making the rounds at it were, with a covid19 blueprint at the ready (for ALL of the virus, not just for the spike protein). If encountered, the T-cells then multiply to attack. This is why you may feel ill for a day or two, as the T-cells are amassing to fight.
The B-cells also have the same blue print, but unlike T-cells, they reside in the bone and do NOT replicate when an attack is underway. The B-cells stay in the bone as memory cells for the immune system and every day, for the rest of your life, whatever virus you successfully fought, you have B-cells in your bones that send out a few signals to reconnoiter the joint (your body), looking for viruses past. Now, the strep throat you had a age 4 probably has no T cells circulating anymore, but the B-cells are still there and they remember. They probably aren’t doing much looking/sending anymore, as that strain has long since died away/mutated itself out of existence from the original. But the flu you had a couple years ago? Yes, those T cells and B cells with that virus blue print are still on the job, still on the look out.
So if you had covid19, the antibodies protecting you from another infection are going to hang around for awhile, but not in same numbers as if your body was under attack. For the unvaxxed: They haven’t injured, rewired or altered their bodies’ ability to form T and B cells, so they should be fine. It’s anybody’s guess how natural immunity will fare if the gain of function goes sideways in ways we don’t yet know about. My money is till on natural immunity, though 🙂 (PS-this is how a doctor explained it to me re: antibodies, T cells and B cells. I don’t have a science mind or background, so this helped me understand.)
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Re: T-cell, B-cell, immune function description -
I don’t have a science mind or background, so this helped me understand.
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Well you explained that like an immunologist. Great information.