Children with Covid-19, natural antibodies persist for at least 7 months

The study, just published in the scientific journal Pediatrics, based on data from 218 children and adolescents aged 5 to 19 years old, who participated in the Texas CARES survey with impressive fertility data. natural antibodies after illness in children.

According to Medical Xpress, The children participating in the study had blood samples taken 3 times to check for antibodies, the results showed that up to 96% of children who had been infected continued to have antibodies until 7 months later.

SARS-CoV-2 virus (Illustration image from the Internet)

The data also show that the ability of children 5-19 years old to produce antibodies is the same, regardless of whether the disease is symptomatic or not, severe or mild, gender, normal weight or overweight or obese.

The group of children participating in the study are those who have never been vaccinated, so the antibodies they possess are completely antibodies acquired from the disease.

This result seems to have dispelled concerns that children may produce natural antibodies after the disease that are weaker and less stable than adults, possibly because in Covid-19 disease, children and adolescents are the main subjects. The disease is very mild, especially in the group of young children.

According to epidemiology professor Sarah Mesiah from the UTHealth School of Public Health, the data helps to partly assess the impact of the SARS-CoV-2 virus on children, as well as the child’s immunity after experiencing the illness. . According to the authors, the limitation of the study is that they only identified antibodies that persist for at least 7 months, but do not know what the maximum threshold is.