ICYMI: Here is a summary of some recent studies on COVID-19.
A key part of the immune system’s second-line defense – its T cells – are highly effective at recognizing and attacking theADVERTISEMENT
In test tube experiments, researchers in South Africa exposed copies of the virus to T cells from volunteers who had received vaccines from Johnson & Johnson or Pfizer/BioNTech or who had not been vaccinated but had developed their own T cells after infection with an earlier version of the coronavirus.
The odds that vaccinated people will catch the virus if a household member becomes infected are nearly three to four times higher with Omicron than with Delta, but booster doses reduce that risk, new findings suggest.
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