Had COVID? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime

People who recover from mild COVID-19 have bone-marrow cells that can churn out antibodies for decades, although viral variants could dampen some of the protection they offer.
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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.

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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01442-9

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  • Correction 27 May 2021: An earlier version of this article gave the wrong number of bone-marrow samples. This has now been corrected.

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