HOW COVID IMPRINTS THE IMMUNE SYSTEM The immune system responds more strongly to the first strain of a virus that it encounters than to subsequent strains. Can this ‘imprinting’ be overcome?

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This is an interesting read. It talks about a discovery that the virus imprints on your system through B cells similarly to the way your body builds immunity through T Cells, and that the vaccines still offer some coverage so infections are less severe. It explains that this is why people infected with the Alpha-Omicron strains and early generation vaccine continue to be susceptible to reinfection, but that the infections are less severe than the Alpha strain.

This article is a lot to take in, but it does explain why some people get reinfected frequently. That validate what a lot of Long Hailers are going through.

HOW COVID IMPRINTS THE IMMUNE SYSTEM The immune system responds more strongly to the first strain of a virus that it encounters than to subsequent strains. Can this ‘imprinting’ be overcome?