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Mild cases of COVID-19: SARS-CoV-2 antibodies drop sharply in first 3 months – Outbreak News Today
A study by UCLA researchers shows that in people with mild cases of COVID-19, antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes the disease — drop sharply over the first three months after infection, decreasing by roughly half every 73 days. If sustained …
A study by UCLA researchers shows that in people with mild cases of COVID-19, antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes the disease — drop sharply over the first three months after infection, decreasing by roughly half every 73 days. If sustained at that rate, the antibodies would disappear within about a year.
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BACKGROUND
Previous reports have suggested that antibodies against the novel coronavirus are short-lived, but the rate at which they decrease has not been careful…
