There’s Good News About Your Immune System and the Coronavirus

When antibody levels go down, T cells have your back

Dana G Smith
Elemental
Published in
8 min readJul 22, 2020

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T cell rendering. Image: Design Cells/Getty Images

More than any other facet of Covid-19, the question of immunity has been a stressful source of good news/bad news whiplash.

Good news: Scientists discovered early on that most people who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 (the official name for…

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Dana G Smith
Elemental

Health and science writer • PhD in 🧠 • Words in Scientific American, STAT, The Atlantic, The Guardian • Award-winning Covid-19 coverage for Elemental