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The children of omicron are better at escaping antibodies, but we’ve still got T-cells and B-cells to protect us

About five million people are affected by some form of lupus worldwide, and complicating factors have made it hard to improve outcomes for people with the disease. Now, German doctors have reported success in treating patients with severe lupus, using cell treatments like those used for some forms of blood cancer. Read more at Monash Lens.

HIV is the onset or the starting age of AIDS, while the latter is the most advanced, lethal stage of the virus infection.

The next phase of the pandemic to keep us safe from the virus so in a simplistic way when you recover from the virus or get the vaccine the body has antibody that is protect you and have memory cells to protect you and what we discovered is the apt bodies go down around four or five months and people get reinfection and the b-cells and t-cells provide really good protection against severe disease and hospitalizations in most people. what does that mean? that's why you see people who have had boosters get good protection from hospitalization and a greater disconnection between infection and hos...

Get some sort of measure of just how protected i am? >> there aren't good correlates of protection, something that says that this is the measurement that one needs to know how well they are protected. and now with these variants, we're seeing how these antibody responses sort of take a hit. >> say you're in a situation where someone doesn't have antibodies anymore. if you were to measure their antibodi antibodies, you don't see them. does that mean they no longer have protection? >> not necessarily. there are several aspects to one's immune system that can drive protection. >> reporter: like b...