Immunity for common cold coronaviruses may ward off severe covid-19

There is potential for a pan-coronavirus vaccination since people who have a greater immune response to the coronaviruses

that produce symptoms similar to the common cold may be more protected against covid-19.

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Before covid-19 surfaced, Ricardo Da Silva Antunes of the La Jolla Institute for Immunology in California

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Over the course of six months to three years, each subject had many samples taken. The research team was interested in how these samples' immune cells

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There are seven coronavirus strains that are known to infect people. Four of them produce symptoms resembling the common cold

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In the most recent trial, peptides—strings of amino acids—from various coronaviruses were mixed with the patients' blood.

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The body normally recognises a virus's peptides to start an immune response.

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According to Antunes, if these coronaviruses that resemble the common cold trigger similar immunological reactions

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