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A 3D rendering of Monoclonal antibodies or immunoglobulin fighting against a group of Coronavirus cells.
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First came the sniffles. Guadalupe Ramirez dismissed them as nothing to be worried about. She popped a pill and forgot about them.
Next came the searing back pain. She dismissed that, too. She d had rheumatoid and osteoarthritis for more than a decade and recovered from a brain tumor in 2018. She was used to pain.
But she called her doctor anyway to report the flare-up and its unusual location along her spine.
Ramirez said she thought the doctor was being silly when she suggested getting a coronavirus test. Ramirez had barely left the house in months. But the test came back positive.
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