Coronavirus: Was Sweden right? Study suggests 'significantly higher' Covid-19
immunity

   Michael Daly15:01, Jul 02 2020
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   Britain's Director of Health Improvement, Professor John Newton, says
   that the science on coronavirus immunity "is still uncertain".

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   A new study in Sweden is raising hopes immunity to Covid-19 among the
   public is “probably significantly higher” than has been suggested by
   the results of testing for antibodies of the disease.
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   Covid-19.

   The Swedish approach has widely been described as herd immunity,
   although the country’s health officials don’t describe it that way.

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   The researchers analysed samples from 203 people and said their results
   indicated roughly twice as many people had developed Covid-19 immunity
   through T-cells, than had developed detectable antibodies.

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   antibody response, but many still showed a marked T-cell response.

   T-cell immunity was also found in people who had no Covid-19 symptoms
   but who had been exposed to family members known to be infected.

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   and only done in specialised laboratories, the release said.

   “Our results indicate that public immunity to Covid-19 is probably
   significantly higher than antibody tests have suggested,” Professor
   Hans-Gustaf Ljunggren, from the Centre for Infectious Medicine at the
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   to determine whether exposed and infected people – specially those
   without symptoms or only very mild forms of the disease – developed
   robust immunity.

   The T-cell response to Sars-CoV-2 was similar to the reaction seen to