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If you've had COVID-19, you've likely been told that your antibodies last a few weeks, or months, at the maximum. However,
new research suggests that many will make antibodies against the virus for most of their lives.
Researchers have identified long-lasting cells, which produce antibodies, in the bone marrow of people who have recovered from the virus, per
Nature. The study provides evidence that immunity will last longer than once thought.
"The implications are that vaccines will have the same durable effect," Menno van Zelm, an immunologist at Monash University in Australia, said.
Antibodies are the key to immune defense, as they essentially serve as a block for the virus. After a new infection, short-lived cells - called plasmablasts - are an early source of antibodies. But, they disappear soon after the body fights off the virus, and other longer-lasting cells make the antibodies.
"A plasma cell is our life history, in terms of the pathogens we've been exposed to," Ali Ellebedy, an immunologist at Washington University in St. Louis who led the study, said.
Ellebedy's team tracked antibody production in 77 people who recovered from mild cases of COVID-19. Indeed, antibodies plummeted in the four months after the infection, but the decline slowed and up to
eleven months after infection, antibodies were still present.
Comment: The nefarious agenda has not just banned effective treatments, it's also coercing tens of millions of people into risking their health on experimental vaccines that have been shown to increase mortality, including in young people: