Study Says If You Haven’t Had Coronavirus Yet, You May Be Immune | the Chronicle

A study published in the scientific journal Nature indicates that those who did not have coronavirus in a year, it is because they would be immune to the disease, good your body may be familiar with the virus, through T cells making it less severe.

According to a study by the National Cancer Institute in the United States, immunity for a person who did not have coronavirus in a year, it would be due to the following: thanks to its T cells, which It is a type of white blood cell formed from stem cells in the bone marrow.

Research indicates that the body may be familiar with the coronavirus due to the T lymphocytes which decrease the severity of the disease.

It should be noted that T cells, also called T lymphocytes or thymoncyte, They protect against various diseases and help fight cancer.

“There is a significant proportion of individuals who have this cross-reactive T cell immunity, from other coronavirus infections, which may have an impact on how they cope with the novel coronavirus,” stressed the doctor Amesh Adalja, researcher at Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, as published Debate.

According to research, This cross-reactivity is also due to the fact that Sars-Cov-2 is the fifth that exists within the family of these, which are the cause of 25 percent of colds.