{"id":1160895,"date":"2021-12-27T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1160895"},"modified":"2021-12-27T12:09:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T17:09:02","slug":"fact-check-did-a-new-study-find-that-having-covid-19-gives-you-immunity-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-a-new-study-find-that-having-covid-19-gives-you-immunity-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did A New Study Find That Having COVID-19 Gives You Immunity For Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-a-new-study-find-that-having-covid-19-gives-you-immunity-for-life%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1160895&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A post&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckCallesto\/status\/1473315335164076040\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckCallesto\/status\/1473315335164076040&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1640200770919000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3CODkqxVr2xd__Mm2kRGo0\">shared on Twitter<\/a> claims a new study from the Washington School of Medicine found people who caught COVID-19 are protected from the disease \u201cfor life.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING REPORT: Washington University School of Medicine RELEASES DATA claiming If You\u2019ve Had COVID You\u2019re Likely PROTECTED FOR LIFE\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Callesto (@ChuckCallesto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChuckCallesto\/status\/1473315335164076040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: Misleading<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The study found that previous COVID-19 infection does infer some protection against future infection but not protection \u201cfor life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The viral tweet reads, \u201cBREAKING REPORT: Washington University School of Medicine RELEASES DATA claiming If You\u2019ve Had COVID You\u2019re Likely PROTECTED FOR LIFE\u2026\u201d However, the study is not a \u201cbreaking report,\u201d nor does it show that people who\u2019ve previously had COVID-19 are \u201cprotected for life\u201d from COVID-19 infection.<\/p>\n<p>The study was published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-021-03647-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 24<\/a> in the journal Nature, nearly eight months before the tweet\u2019s claim was made. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-021-03647-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">focused<\/a> on a group of people who had mild COVID-19 infections and found that in this group the infection prompted the production of bone marrow plasma cells, which \u201care a persistent and essential source of protective antibodies.\u201d The study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-021-03647-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">concluded<\/a>&nbsp;that the results indicate that a mild infection \u201cinduces robust antigen-specific, long-lived humoral immune memory in humans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neither the study itself nor a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.wustl.edu\/news\/good-news-mild-covid-19-induces-lasting-antibody-protection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release<\/a> about it claims that the protection imparted from these antibodies is absolute or that those who were previously infected are now protected from reinfection for life. A Dec. 22 <a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.wustl.edu\/news\/good-news-mild-covid-19-induces-lasting-antibody-protection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">editor\u2019s note<\/a> added to the May 24 press release notes that \u201chaving antibodies does not automatically translate into indefinite protection from illness, particularly as new variants arise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pathology.wustl.edu\/people\/ali-ellebedy-phd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Ali Ellebedy<\/a>, a co-author of the Washington University School of Medicine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-021-03647-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">paper<\/a>, told Check Your Fact in an email that \u201cOur study does NOT show nor claim that people recovering from mild SARS-CoV-2 infection are protected for life.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/11\/08\/fact-check-pfizer-albert-bourla-arrested-fbi-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Has Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla Been Arrested By The FBI On Fraud Charges?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"m_5163702172149751175xmsonormal\"><b>\u201c<\/b>Epidemiological data clearly show that people recovered from earlier infection can be infected especially with emerging variants of concerns like Delta and Omicron,\u201d Ellebedy said. \u201cHaving detectable antibody response in blood for life does NOT equal being \u2018protected\u2019 for life. Not all antibodies are protective especially if the virus they are raised against is constantly changing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post\u00a0shared on Twitter claims a new study from the Washington School of Medicine found people who caught COVID-19 are protected from the disease \u201cfor life.\u201d BREAKING REPORT: Washington University &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}