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Certain antibodies and memory cells likely last more than 8 months after someone has contracted the coronavirus, especially if they have a strong immune response to COVID-19, according to a new study published Wednesday in Science.

Antibodies to the spike protein on the coronavirus were relatively stable after 6 months, and spike-specific memory B cells were higher at 6 months than the first month after infection. The number of memory T cells declined in about 4 to 6 months, but there were some that lasted.

"That amount of memory would likely prevent the vast majority of people from getting hospitalized disease, severe disease, for many years," Shane Crotty, the senior author and a virologist at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, La Jolla, California, told The New York Times. 

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