COVID-19 Vaccines May Protect Against Other Coronaviruses Too: Study
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COVID-19 Vaccine Study: The study found that plasma from humans who had been vaccinated against S-CoV-2 produced antibodies that were cross-reactive, or provided protection, againstS-CoV-1 and the common cold coronavirus (OC43).
COVID-19 vaccines and prior coronavirus infections can provide broad immunity against other, similar coronaviruses, according to a study.
The findings, published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation, build a rationale for universal coronavirus vaccines that could prove useful in the face of future epidemics.
"Until our study, what hasn't been clear is if you get exposed to one coronavirus, could you have cross-protection across other coronaviruses? And we showed that is the case," said study lead author Pablo Penaloza-MacMaster, assistant professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, US.
The three main families of coronaviruses that cause human disease include Sarbecovirus, which includes the S-CoV-1 strain responsible for the 2003 outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (S), as well as S-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19.
