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How the littlest children stop SARS-CoV-2 in its tracks

Compared with adults, babies have a weaker antibody response but better protection in their noses.
Mother doing rapid covid-19 test at home with her little daughter.

Babies and toddlers tend to have mild cases of COVID-19, perhaps because they have a strong immune responses in the nose. Credit: Getty

A pandemic’s worth of research has painted an increasingly clear picture of how the immune systems of adults and older children respond to SARS-CoV-2, but much less is known about these responses in babies.

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Nature 622, 221 (2023)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03036-z

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  1. Wimmers, F. et al. Cell https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2023.08.044 (2023).

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