A professor at the Swedish institute says 'it is of course very good news from a public health perspective'.
More people have got immunity to coronavirus than antibody tests suggest, according to new research from Sweden.or who didn’t show symptoms still seem to have so-called"T-cells", although were keen to stress that their results had not yet undergone peer review.
T-cells are a type of white blood cell specialised in recognising viruses and are an essential part of the immune system, said Marcus Buggert, an assistant professor at the Center for Infectious Medicine."Our results indicate that roughly twice as many people have developed T-cell immunity compared with those who we can detect antibodies in," he explained.
Analysis of T-cells are more complicated than coronavirus antibody tests, so are usually done in specialist laboratories rather than the mobile testing sites some people showing symptoms will visit.Soo Aleman, a consultant at Karolinska University Hospital, also said the T-cells were found not just in people who had had theShe said around 30% of blood donors in May had those types of immunity cells -"a figure that’s much higher than previous antibody tests have shown".
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