Immunity

Surprising find: Same-arm vaccine shots enhance immunity

Antibodies from same-arm vaccinations showed increased effectiveness against variants.

 Surprising find: Same-arm vaccine shots enhance immunity.
 Likud MK Tally Gotliv at the Knesset committee. January 28, 2025.

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 (L-R) Shikma Bressler; Likud MK Tally Gotliv

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Will a coronavirus vaccine be a ‘cure’ for the pandemic?

The answer to this is more complicated than one might think and centers around the question of the strength and longevity of the immune response.

Scientists develop a vaccine against the coronavirus disease in Saint Petersburg

Some uninfected, unexposed patients may be resistant to COVID-19

Even more surprising is the fact that this was also seen in blood samples taken years before the coronavirus pandemic even began, meaning some people have pre-existing resistance against the virus.

A healthy human T cell.

Israeli doctor reinfected with coronavirus 3 months after recovering

This is the second case at Sheba Medical Center in which a patient recovered from the virus and was subsequently reinfected.

MAGEN DAVID ADOM workers, wearing protective clothing, bring a patient to the coronavirus unit at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan

Doctors attack the Health Ministry's coronavirus combating policy

As an alternative, the group of doctors offered to keep the older population safer and to allow more freedom to Israel's youth.

A woman reacts as a doctor wearing a protective glove takes a swab to test for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) at a residential area in Srinagar

Swiftly waning COVID-19 immunity poses vaccination challenge

There is no data from any human trials showing whether any protective antibody immune response would be strong- and long-lasting enough.

Small bottles labeled with a "Vaccine COVID-19" sticker and a medical syringe are seen in this illustration

Could Brooklyn’s Hasidic Jews have herd immunity?

“That’s the feeling, that they’ve had it, everybody they know has had it, and the people they know who haven’t had it have some kind of immunity that we just don’t understand yet.”

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A man walks past a poster covering the side of a building ahead of a 21 day lockdown aimed at limiting the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Cape Town, South Africa, March 26, 2020.

Monkeys develop short-term immunity to coronavirus, Chinese study finds

The experiment took place at the Peking Union Medical College in Beijing and used rhesus macaques as test subjects, as they are relatively similar to humans.

MONKEY BUSINESS in the Amazon rainforest.

Coronavirus: Antibodies don't indicate immunity

“Antibodies don’t mean you have immunity. [A test] doesn’t say if you have enough of the right number of antibodies or how long they live."

TESTING FOR coronavirus at a Leumit Health Fund lab in Or Yehuda.

Bnei Brak could be Israel’s first ‘herd immunity’ model

Recent criticism of Bnei Brak for high infection numbers might actually come to their benefit, as they will be the first to develop "herd immunity"

Israeli police officers take out ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, as part of an effort to enforce lockdown in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, April 2, 2020.