An antibody that develops after people have the common cold can neutralize the virus that causes COVID-19, a new study suggests. Both the common cold and SARS-CoV-2 fall under a family known as coronaviruses, which cause upper-respiratory tract.
A new study from the Scripps Research Institute, in La Jolla, California, found higher levels of antibodies generated during the common cold in COVID survivors than in those never infected.