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March 8 2022
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COVID-19 immune response
COVID-19 immune response improves for months after
Improves for months after
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Researchers showed that
cells evolve after COVID-19 vaccination to help improve protection against SARS-CoV-2
over time:
better understanding of how the Immune
responds to COVID-19 vaccination could lead to more effective and
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Vaccines are the best way to protect yourself against COVID-19. They elicit a
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Vaccines activate your body's disease defense system; called the immune
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system: The response starts by engaging two kinds of Immune cells: B cells,
which produce antibodies that fight off the virus, and
cells, which destroy
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After this Initial response, levels of antibodies in the bloodstream begin to
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fall, But some B
Tcells stay around to keep
"memory" of the virus and
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fight off future Infections. In order to optimize future COVID-19 vaccines and
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predict when booster shots are needed, researchers have been working to
gain
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