{"id":24296,"date":"2020-08-22T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/?p=24296"},"modified":"2020-08-13T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T15:17:10","slug":"coronavirus-and-the-common-cold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2020\/08\/22\/coronavirus-and-the-common-cold\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus and the common cold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">New research suggests that infection from a common cold could generate an immune response to COVID -19<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The article focuses on one arm of the immune response  &#8211; the B and T cells which produce antibodies. It shows that people keep T cells from the mild coronaviruses long enough to interact with a new challenge by SARS-CoV-2, meaning that those T cells might recognise SARS-CoV-2 and help to clear the infection. Could this <strong><em>possibly<\/em><\/strong> provide an answer as to why some people have less severe effects compared to others? Click<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/coronavirus-does-the-common-cold-protect-you-from-covid-144295?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20August%2012%202020%20-%201702316429&amp;utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20August%2012%202020%20-%201702316429+CID_7acf8476aa4680547dda5d28dfbbdaef&amp;utm_source=campaign_monitor_uk&amp;utm_term=Coronavirus%20does%20the%20common%20cold%20protect%20you%20from%20COVID\"> here<\/a> to read more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read the whole research, conducted by  La Jolla Institute for Immunology click <a href=\"https:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/early\/2020\/08\/04\/science.abd3871\/tab-pdf\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"754\" height=\"503\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/antibodies-and-covid.jpg?resize=754%2C503\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/antibodies-and-covid.jpg?w=754&amp;ssl=1 754w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/antibodies-and-covid.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Antibodies latching onto a coronavirus to neutralise it.  <br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-illustration\/antibodies-attacking-sarscov2-virus-conceptual-3d-1700617951\">https:\/\/www.shutterstock.com\/image-illustration\/antibodies-attacking-sarscov2-virus-conceptual-3d-1700617951<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research suggests that infection from a common cold could generate an immune response to COVID -19 The article focuses on one arm of the immune response &#8211; the B and T cells which produce antibodies. It shows that people keep T cells from the mild coronaviruses long enough to interact with a new challenge &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2020\/08\/22\/coronavirus-and-the-common-cold\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Coronavirus and the common cold&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[86,113,223],"tags":[6562,6559,6348,3054,4985,6561,6560],"class_list":["post-24296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evidence-based-practice","category-immunisations","category-research","tag-antibodies","tag-b-cells","tag-covid-19","tag-infection","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-t-cells"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24298,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24296\/revisions\/24298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}