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Audio long read: How your first brush with COVID warps your immunity

Nature Podcast

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🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Imprinting is a quirk of the immune system in which someone’s initial exposure to a virus biases their immune response when they meet the same virus again.


Studies are showing how imprinting shapes people’s responses to SARS-CoV-2; those infected with earlier strains can mount weaker responses to a later Omicron infection.


This phenomenon is dampening the hope that variant-tailored boosters will markedly reduce transmission of the virus, although researchers agree that variant-tailored boosters are worth getting because they still provide some immunity, and prevent serious illness.


This is an audio version of our Feature: How your first brush with COVID warps your immunity



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This is an audio long read from nature. In this episode, how your first brush with COVID warps your immunity.

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Written by Rachel Brazil and read by me, Benjamin Thompson.

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