A newly developed blood test that measures a specific immune response in the body could help doctors gauge how much protection a person has against COVID-19, according to a new study. 7NEWS
This means that T cells won’t stop an infection from happening, but they can prevent a patient from becoming severely ill from COVID-19.
The scientists are continuing to refine the test and are studying how well T cells are responding against different variants.“The good news is that we develop immunity against multiple proteins from the virus, and many of them do not tend to be mutated by the variants.”Tests to detect T cells have mostly been limited to labs for research purposes, and the process is usually expensive and difficult to do on a large scale, Guccione said.
More research is needed, but he said the accuracy of the results is comparable to similar tests run in research labs.
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