Coronavirus antibodies fall dramatically in first 3 months after mild cases of COVID-19

Wednesday, July 22, 2020 - 08:52 in Health & Medicine

FINDINGS 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. BACKGROUND Previous reports have […]

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