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Y’all, did anybody here do a good job posting the study that goes a ways toward explaining why the protection from the MRNA Covid vaccines is so short-lived?

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Prof. Akiko Iwasaki @ @VirusesI...•4h An important study by F. Eun-Hyung Lee's team shows that long lived plasma cells (the source of long-term circulating antibodies) fail to establish after mRNA vaccination (even combined with SARS-CoV-2 infection).
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SARS-CoV-2-specific plasma cells are not durab.
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Prof. Akiko Iwasaki @ @VirusesI....4h ...
The longevity of antibody-mediated protection against infectious diseases rely on whether or not the vaccines can establish long lived plasma cells (LLPC) in the bone marrow. They are the source of circulating antibodies for years to decades.
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