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- A team of researchers from Finland found that 91% of the people tested for coronavirus antibodies still had neutralizing antibodies six months after surviving COVID-19.
- The study suggests the immune response after COVID-19 is potent, and protection against reinfection might be long-lasting.
- The results are promising for vaccines, which have proven to elicit an immune response in clinical trials that’s comparable or better than exposure to the pathogen.
The first coronavirus vaccines to be approved for emergency use arrived in record time, less than a year after discovering the new pathogen. Ample vaccination campaigns are already underway in the US and UK, with other countries in Europe to follow soon. A large percentage of the population will have to be immunized for countries to develop herd immunity. Public health experts often explain that protection might be reached only once 70% of the population is vaccinated. Herd immunity should significantly reduce the spread of COVID-19 because the virus would have a much harder time finding a host it can infect.
There’s one other factor that will influence the success of vaccination campaigns, aside from the number of people in a community who are inoculated. That’s the amount of time immunity lasts after recovery or vaccination. The longer the immunity lasts, the better herd immunity would work. Now, a new COVID-19 immunity study gives us another reason to be hopeful that vaccines will help the world beat the pandemic. Researchers discovered that most people who get infected with coronavirus develop a robust immune response that appears to last a long time.
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