Is It All Antibodies Facilitating Viruses?

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Vaccines induce the production of antibodies against the ris. Researchers looked specifically at antibodies produced when people are vaccinated with an marana vaccine. And they've found that they didn't kind of facilitate this response. This isn't a case of any antibody against saskovto is gaing a turn rogue and end up inviting them into immune cells. Smitty: It again speaks to just the fantastic complexity of understanding viris like this.

Since the beginning of the pandemic there has been a debate amongst researchers about whether the body's immune cells can themselves be infected by SARS-CoV-2. Now two new studies show that they can - and what's more, the work has revealed a new mechanism for the massive inflammatory response seen in severe COVID. In this episode of Coronapod, we dig into the papers, asking why it has taken so long to get an answer to this question? How immune cell infection could lead to severe disease? And whether this new mechanism could provide a new avenue for the development of therapeutics?

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