{"id":123135,"date":"2021-05-28T15:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T22:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/had-covid-youll-probably-make-antibodies-for-a-lifetime"},"modified":"2021-05-28T15:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T22:22:20","slug":"had-covid-youll-probably-make-antibodies-for-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/had-covid-youll-probably-make-antibodies-for-a-lifetime","title":{"rendered":"Had COVID? You\u2019ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/had-covid-youll-probably-make-antibodies-for-a-lifetime3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many people who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 will probably make antibodies against the virus for most of their lives. So suggest researchers who have identified long-lived antibody-producing cells in the bone marrow of people who have recovered from COVID-19<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-021-01442-9#ref-CR1\">1<\/a><\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>The study provides evidence that immunity triggered by SARS-CoV-2 infection will be extraordinarily long-lasting. Adding to the good news, \u201cthe implications are that vaccines will have the same durable effect\u201d, says Menno van Zelm, an immunologist at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Antibodies \u2014 proteins that can recognize and help to inactivate viral particles \u2014 are a key immune defence. After a new infection, short-lived cells called plasmablasts are an early source of antibodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people who have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 will probably make antibodies against the virus for most of their lives. So suggest researchers who have identified long-lived antibody-producing cells in the bone marrow of people who have recovered from COVID-191. The study provides evidence that immunity triggered by SARS-CoV-2 infection will be extraordinarily long-lasting. Adding [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}