Welcome Guest! Create an Account login email: password: remember me: BASKETBALLFOOTBALLMESSAGE BOARDCHATLINKS site searchwhere to watchcontact usabout usadvertise with ushelp Message Board BobcatAttack.com Message Board General Ohio University Discussion/Alumni Events Topic:  Do antibodies last? Can you get reinfected? Topic:  Do antibodies last? Can you get reinfected? Author Message L.C. General User Member Since: 8/31/2005 Location: United States Post Count: 10,470 Status: Offline     Do antibodies last? Can you get reinfected?    Posted: 7/20/2020 1:03:56 PM  These are the hot questions at the moment. It is the hope of everyone that if you do catch Covid19, you will be immune for a considerable time. On the one hand, immunity to the common coronaviruses that cause "colds" are not long lasting, so you can catch them again as soon as four months after recovery. On the other hand, immunity to SARS lasted for up to ten years. How will Covid19 compare? Unfortunately, it seems that antibodies peak after a few weeks, and start declining after that. https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/With-coronavir... If antibodies do fall that quickly a vaccine will most likely not offer long term protection, either, so this may turn into something that people get every year, or a couple times a year. Let's hope not. Antibodies are not the only measure of immunity, however. Our bodies have multiple defenses, including memory B cells and memory T cells. If these persist, they may have some effectiveness in minimizing and shortening the duration of re-infections. Memory T cells are of particular interest because SARS-COV2 shares many proteins with the common coronaviruses, with which we have all probably been infected with at some point. Thus, the memory T cells may recognize SARS-COV2 immediately, and help the body fight it off quickly, which may be why so many people have mild or asymptomatic cases. It may also explain why the case totals seem to go only so high before slowing down, rather than rapidly running through the entire population. No state or country has reported more than 4% infections, which is not what you would expect if this were truly a novel virus, to which no one had any defense. So many questions, and so few answers. Treatment options continue to improve, but we still don't know the answers to some big questions. How long does immunity last? How soon can a person be reinfected? If a person is reinfected, will it generally be more mild, or more severe? “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” ― Epictetus Back to Top Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame General User Member Since: 7/30/2010 Post Count: 3,593 Status: Offline     RE: Do antibodies last? Can you get reinfected?    Posted: 7/20/2020 2:54:20 PM  L.C. wrote: These are the hot questions at the moment. It is the hope of everyone that if you do catch Covid19, you will be immune for a considerable time. On the one hand, immunity to the common coronaviruses that cause "colds" are not long lasting, so you can catch them again as soon as four months after recovery. On the other hand, immunity to SARS lasted for up to ten years. How will Covid19 compare? Unfortunately, it seems that antibodies peak after a few weeks, and start declining after that. https://www.sfchronicle.com/health/article/With-coronavir... If antibodies do fall that quickly a vaccine will most likely not offer long term protection, either, so this may turn into something that people get every year, or a couple times a year. Let's hope not. Antibodies are not the only measure of immunity, however. Our bodies have multiple defenses, including memory B cells and memory T cells. If these persist, they may have some effectiveness in minimizing and shortening the duration of re-infections. Memory T cells are of particular interest because SARS-COV2 shares many proteins with the common coronaviruses, with which we have all probably been infected with at some point. Thus, the memory T cells may recognize SARS-COV2 immediately, and help the body fight it off quickly, which may be why so many people have mild or asymptomatic cases. It may also explain why the case totals seem to go only so high before slowing down, rather than rapidly running through the entire population. No state or country has reported more than 4% infections, which is not what you would expect if this were truly a novel virus, to which no one had any defense. So many questions, and so few answers. Treatment options continue to improve, but we still don't know the answers to some big questions. How long does immunity last? How soon can a person be reinfected? If a person is reinfected, will it generally be more mild, or more severe? Forgive my ignorance -- not an expert here -- but does the idea that antibodies peak after a few weeks and then begin to decline effectively negate the idea of herd immunity? Back to Top Pataskala General User Member Since: 7/8/2010 Location: At least six feet away from anybody else Post Count: 9,333 Status: Offline     RE: Do antibodies last? Can you get reinfected?    Posted: 7/20/2020 3:32:21 PM  I've heard that for many people the antibodies don't last long, so they can get reinfected. Doctors are recommending that people take precautions against Covid even if they test positive for antibodies. We will get by. We will get by. We will get by. We will survive. Back to Top L.C. General User Member Since: 8/31/2005 Location: United States Post Count: 10,470 Status: Offline     RE: Do antibodies last? Can you get reinfected?    Posted: 7/20/2020 8:16:48 PM  Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote: Forgive my ignorance -- not an expert here -- but does the idea that antibodies peak after a few weeks and then begin to decline effectively negate the idea of herd immunity? The immune system is very complicated, with multiple ways of dealing with infections, so that's not a question I'm prepared to answer, either. Some people I have read have said that, yes, if the antibodies drop that fast, there can be no herd immunity. I also know that Sweden was testing for memory T-Cells, which are longer lasting, and Sweden is claiming that herd immunity can come from those, as well. In the end the question is, do people get reinfected? In time we will know the answer. “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” ― Epictetus Back to Top L.C. General User Member Since: 8/31/2005 Location: United States Post Count: 10,470 Status: Offline     RE: Do antibodies last? Can you get reinfected?    Posted: 7/27/2020 11:27:16 AM  Are antibodies even the main way the body fights off Covid19? Increasingly it seems that memory T-Cells are the first line of defense. When a virus invades a cell, and makes the cell begin manufacturing more virus particles, during the manufacturing, proteins being assembled are visible outside the cell. When a Memory T-Cell recognizes a protein, it either destroys the cell that is producing virus particles, or marks that cell for destruction. T-Cells are longer lasing than antibodies, and may last for years. From testing of blood samples that were taken pre-Covid, some 40-60% of people may already have memory T-cells that recognize some of the proteins in Covid. This isn't totally surprising because SARS-COV2 shares a certain number of proteins with the coronaviruses that cause colds. One reason that the young may fight off Covid19 more effectively is that T-cell production is related to the thymus, a tiny organ that produces a hormone that converts lymphocytes into T-cells. The thymus begins shrinking by age 30, and so after that point, our adaptive immune system becomes increasingly less effective. By 50, our bodies are making far fewer T-cells, making us much more vulnerable to Covid19, as well as to many other diseases, and cancer. If T-cells are the longest lasting defense against Covid, this may have implications in vaccine design, as you would want to trigger the body to make T-cells. There is indication that the Oxford vaccine does trigger T-cell response, as well as antibodies: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200716-the-people-wi... On the other hand, if older people aren't able to produce large numbers of effective memory T-cells, that has implications as well, and may mean that they need a different vaccine, and/or more frequent boosters. Last Edited: 7/27/2020 12:03:20 PM by L.C. “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” ― Epictetus Back to Top L.C. General User Member Since: 8/31/2005 Location: United States Post Count: 10,470 Status: Offline     RE: Do antibodies last? Can you get reinfected?    Posted: 8/1/2020 11:56:54 AM  Here's a good article that goes into a great deal of detail about the various responses our immune systems have to Covid (or other viruses), and discusses numerous other topics, such has how long antibodies last, and the implications of that for developing herd immunity, as well as the implications for potential vaccines: https://www.vox.com/2020/7/22/21324729/getting-covid-19-t... “We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.” ― Epictetus Back to Top JSF General User Member Since: 1/29/2005 Location: Houston, TX Post Count: 6,444 Status: Offline     RE: Do antibodies last? Can you get reinfected?    Posted: 8/6/2020 3:45:09 PM  Pataskala wrote: I've heard that for many people the antibodies don't last long, so they can get reinfected. Doctors are recommending that people take precautions against Covid even if they test positive for antibodies. I know a couple people who've had it twice already. "Loyalty to a hometown or city is fleeting and interchangeable, but college is a stamp of identity."- Kyle Whelliston, One Beautiful Season. My blog about depression and mental illness: https://bit.ly/3buGXH8 Back to Top oldkatz General User Member Since: 12/22/2004 Post Count: 1,431 Status: Offline     RE: Do antibodies last? Can you get reinfected?    Posted: 8/7/2020 10:56:37 AM  L.C. wrote: Here's a good article that goes into a great deal of detail about the various responses our immune systems have to Covid (or other viruses), and discusses numerous other topics, such has how long antibodies last, and the implications of that for developing herd immunity, as well as the implications for potential vaccines: https://www.vox.com/2020/7/22/21324729/getting-covid-19-t... Wonderfully informative and understandable article; science in the forefront! Thanks, L.C. "All my inside sources tell me I have no inside sources." Salvatore "money bucks" Mafiosiano. Back to Top Pataskala General User Member Since: 7/8/2010 Location: At least six feet away from anybody else Post Count: 9,333 Status: Offline     RE: Do antibodies last? Can you get reinfected?    Posted: 8/24/2020 3:32:40 PM  Just saw that someone in Hong Kong who had covid-19 and recovered has caught a new strain of it. We will get by. We will get by. 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