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Exposure to common colds might give some people a head start in fighting COVID-19

  • Written by Larisa Labzin, Research Fellow, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
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Could we have some immunity to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, without ever having been exposed to it?

Some new studies found people who were never symptomatic, exposed to, or tested positive for COVID-19 have immune cells that can recognise and possibly kill virus-infected cells.

How is this possible? And what does it mean...

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