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Pre-existing antibodies may protect some people against novel coronavirus: Study

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London: Scientists have found that some antibodies, created by the immune system during infection with common cold coronaviruses, can also target the COVID-19 causing SARS-CoV-2, and may confer a degree of protection against the new virus.The researchers, including those from the Francis Crick Institute in the UK, explained that in response to viral infection, the immune system creates antibodies to help fight it, which remain in the blood for a period, and prevent re-infection.In the new study, published in the journal Science, the scientists found that some people, notably children, have antibodies reactive to the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in their blood, despite not ever having being infected with the virus.They said these antibodies.

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