1/New Peer-reviewed
https://www.jimmunol.org/content/207/5/1344
2/ “Importantly, relative to antibodies, Tcells are less prone to evasion by the variants of concern emerging worldwide, suggesting a potentially important role for these immune effectors in long-term population-based immunity in the years ahead.”
3/ “If one assumes similarities to nucleocapsid- specific CD8+ Tcells from SARSCoV1, then the course of differentiation we describe here may be one that leads to SARSCoV2-specific memory CD8+ Tcells that can persist for up to 17 years, and perhaps even longer.”
Originally tweeted by Kulvinder Kaur MD (@dockaurG) on August 27, 2021.