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COVID-19 — United States
Seasonal colds are by all accounts no fun, but new research suggests the colds you’ve had in the past may provide some protection from COVID-19. The study, authored by infectious disease experts at the University of Rochester Medical Center [URMC], also suggests that immunity to COVID-19 is likely to last a long time — maybe even a lifetime.
The study, published in mBio [see ref below], is the first to show that the COVID-19-causing virus, SARS-CoV-2, induces memory B cells, long-lived