Other factors also increase your vulnerability to reinfection, starting with how long it has been since you had Covid. Immune defenses tend to wane after an infection. A study published in October 2021 estimated that reinfection could occur as soon as 3 months after contracting Covid-19. While...
Other factors also increase your vulnerability to reinfection, starting with how long it has been since you had Covid. Immune defenses tend to wane after an infection. A study published in October 2021 estimated that reinfection could occur as soon as 3 months after contracting Covid-19. While...
How Long Do COVID Symptoms Last? COVID symptoms can last anywhere from a few weeks to several months. It can also depend on how serious your COVID infection is and how your immune system reacts to it. Your health and other conditions may also affect how long it lasts. Most people get...
Can you become immune to COVID-19? Patients who recover from COVID-19 make antibodies to the virus that may impart immunity for at least 6 months; however, breakthrough infections do occur and may be more likely with newly circulating variants of the virus. Immunizing with the latest recomm...
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Intense efforts are underway to determine the pathophysiology of long COVID (LC), a set of conditions characterized by immune perturbations1. T cells have important roles in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) immunity and pathogenesis2,3,4,5,6, yet relatively little is...
Well, our immune system has another trick up its sleeve to protect us for the long term, even after people’s effector cells and antibody levels have fallen. Once lymphocytes have been trained to deal with a virus, a pool of the cells remember it and are kept for the future. These “...
immune status of the infected populations at a given time point. The key point has been that, even with vaccination and milder presentations of acute infection across recent variant waves, the cumulative burden of long COVID has continued to rise (Fig.1). Progressing from long COVID cases of...
The coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The long incubation period of this new virus, which is mostly asymptomatic yet contagious, is a key reason for its rapid spread across th