Prognosis
Powerful Immune Cells Able to Recognize Omicron Variant, Study Indicates
Omicron is already known to evade the body’s antibody forces, but until now experts have been unsure about the role of T cells in relation to the variant.
A glass sculpture of the coronavirus.
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Powerful immune cells that are thought to play a role in long-term protection from serious Covid-19 are able to recognise Omicron, a new study has found.
T cells are a type of white blood cell that hunt down and destroy infected cells in the body, and the new research shows that, despite extensive mutations, they are able to recognise the Omicron variant.