Chinese and U.S. scientists expressed the fear that people will never develop antibodies to COVID-19, as sometimes they disappear immediately after the recovery of the patient. On Thursday, June 18, according to the newspaper South China Morning Post.
To such conclusion it studies the emergence of the immunity of physicians from Wuhan who had contact with patients directly in an early stage of emergence of infections.
it turned Out that only 4% of the 23,000 people had the antibodies, while infected could about 25% of the medical personnel.
“people are unlikely to produce antibodies against the virus for a long time,” said the researchers.
Earlier in the beginning of June the head of the Department of epidemiology of Irkutsk state medical University doctor of medical Sciences, Professor Alexander Botvinkin told that the total number of antibodies reaches a peak at second-third month and stored in the body for up to a year or more.