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Blood cancer patients can fight Covid with T cells: Study – Daijiworld.com

New York, May 28 (IANS): Antibodies aren’t the only immune cells needed to fight off Covid-19, T cells are equally important and can step up to do the job when…

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New York, May 28 (IANS): Antibodies aren’t the only immune cells needed to fight off Covid-19, T cells are equally important and can step up to do the job when antibodies are depleted, suggests a new study of blood cancer patients with coronavirus.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, US, found that blood cancer patients with Covid-19 who had higher CD8 T cells, many of whom had depleted antibodies from cancer treatments, were more than three times more likely to survive than patients…

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