{"id":836,"date":"2021-07-20T20:58:53","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T20:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=836"},"modified":"2021-07-20T20:58:53","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T20:58:53","slug":"immune-t-cells-may-offer-lasting-protection-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/?p=836","title":{"rendered":"Immune T Cells May Offer Lasting Protection Against COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\">Much of the study on the immune response to SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, has focused on the production of&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/directorsblog.nih.gov\/2020\/06\/30\/finding-antibodies-that-neutralize-sars-cov-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">antibodies<\/a>. But, in fact, immune cells known as memory T cells also play an important role in the ability of our immune systems to protect us against many viral infections, including\u2014it now appears\u2014COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\">An intriguing new study of these memory T cells suggests they might protect some people newly infected with SARS-CoV-2 by remembering past encounters with other&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/types.html\" target=\"_blank\">human coronaviruses<\/a>. This might potentially explain why some people seem to fend off the virus and may be less susceptible to becoming severely ill with COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">For More Information: <a href=\"https:\/\/directorsblog.nih.gov\/2020\/07\/28\/immune-t-cells-may-offer-lasting-protection-against-covid-19\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/directorsblog.nih.gov\/2020\/07\/28\/immune-t-cells-may-offer-lasting-protection-against-covid-19\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the study on the immune response to SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, has focused on the production of&nbsp;antibodies. But, in fact, immune cells known as memory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[703,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-autoimmune-disease","category-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cov19longhaulfoundation.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}