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Cytokine storms may prevent the development of long-term immunity to SARS-CoV-2 – News-Medical.Net
Shiv Pillai, MD, PhD, investigator in the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard and professor at Harvard Medical School (HMS), recently published a paper in Cell showing that that high levels of some cytokines seen in COVID-19 patients, as part of a cytokin…
Reviewed by Emily Henderson, B.Sc.Aug 19 2020
Shiv Pillai, MD, PhD, investigator in the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard and professor at Harvard Medical School (HMS), recently published a paper in Cell showing that that high levels of some cytokines seen in COVID-19 patients, as part of a cytokine storm, may prevent the development of long-term immunity to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
We’ve seen a lot of studies suggesting that immunity in COVID-19 may not be durable bec…
