Even mild Covid-19 cases confer 'durable immunity,' new studies find.

[NutmegYankee]

Scientists who have been monitoring immune responses to the coronavirus for months are now starting to see encouraging signs of strong, lasting immunity, even in people that developed only mild symptoms of Covid-19, a flurry of new studies has found.

Disease-fighting antibodies, as well as immune cells called B cells and T cells capable of recognizing the virus, appear to persist months after infections have resolved — an encouraging echo of the body’s robust immune response to other viruses.

“This is exactly what you would hope for,” said Marion Pepper, an immunologist at the University of Washington and an author on one of the new studies, which is currently under review at the journal Nature. “All the pieces are there to have a totally protective immune response.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/16/world/coronavirus-covid-19.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage#link-2f7e6633

Some good news for a change.

[Disaffected]

1. Not good news at all.

GREAT news!

Let's hope it stands up to further study.

[mr_lebowski]

2. I wish 'months' wasn't such a vague term ... but it's probably impossible to know any more than

that, so ... I guess I'll say ... sounds ... promising?

[Iliyah]

3. Yeah, that's ok . .

while thousands die.

[NutmegYankee]

4. It makes a vaccine more likely to work.