If you've had a common cold before you might be protected against coronavirus, experts discover

Having a common cold can help fight coronavirus - raising hopes some have degree of protection

HAVING a common cold can help fight coronavirus - raising hopes some have a degree of protection, experts claim.

However, the researchers from the La Jolla Institute for Immunology in California, warn that their findings are yet to be proven outside of a laboratory., looked at immune cells - known as T-cells - which differ from the B-cells that produce antibodies. Dan Davis, professor of immunology at the University of Manchester, told the Times: “When a cell is infected with a coronavirus, the virus’s protein molecules are chopped up into very small pieces."When T-cells see these molecules that have never been in the body before they multiply, then they go and respond to those infected cells.”

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