T cells generated from the common cold may help protect against COVID-19, a new study found. But researchers stressed that 'no one should rely on this alone.'
Health experts advise getting tested by a health care provider but here are some key differences between COVID-19, the flu and the common cold as told by a nurse educator.
"Being exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus doesn’t always result in infection, and we’ve been keen to understand why," Dr. Rhia Kundu, a researcher from Imperial College London and lead author of the study,. "We found that high levels of pre-existing T cells, created by the body when infected with other human coronaviruses like the common cold, can protect against COVID-19 infection.
FILE - A woman is pictured blowing her nose into tissue in bed with a glass of water and lemon and ginger on a table in a file image dated Oct. 29, 2015. , could provide a blueprint for a universal COVID-19 vaccine that could help protect against current variants like delta and omicron, as well as future strains.The study began in September 2020 when most people in the U.K. had neither been infected nor vaccinated against COVID-19.
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