The view that the immune system — prepped via either recovery from infection, or vaccination — can tackle the new variant has found support in a South African study that credits T-cells with putting up a robust defence against Omicron Countries are going into fresh curfews and restrictions are coming back again amid fresh surges under the shadow of the …
Countries are going into fresh curfews and restrictions are coming back again amid fresh surges under the shadow of the Omicron variant of the novel coronavirus. The so-called first line of defence, says the World Health Organisation, is the body’s ‘innate immunity’, which is the “general immediate response to any infection”. Move past that and the virus encounters ‘adaptive immunity’, …
The UK has reported another 1,239 confirmed cases of the Omicron variant - an increase of 65 per cent over the past 24 hours. 'We have been able to test people who are in hospital over the past two weeks and so there is a lag to hospitalisation but the risk of a highly infectious variant even if it were, …
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