Don’t Freak Out Over That Waning Covid-19 Antibodies Study

New findings in a British study come with many caveats

Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog
6 min readOct 28, 2020

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A preprint study published Tuesday by researchers in England suggested that the prevalence of Covid-19 antibodies in the British population was waning, prompting scary headlines about short-lived immunity to the coronavirus. Antibodies are molecules produced by the immune…

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Yasmin Tayag
Medium Coronavirus Blog

Editor, Medium Coronavirus Blog. Senior editor at Future Human by OneZero. Previously: science at Inverse, genetics at NYU.