Study: Children show strongest immune response to COVID-19https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2021/03/22/coronavirus-antibodies-children-study/3321616419472/March 22 (UPI) -- Children age 10 and younger develop a more robust immune response to the coronavirus than other age groups, a study published Monday by JAMA Network Open found.
Blood of younger children tested for antibodies to the virus had evidence of more than twice as many cells created by the immune system to fight off infections than adolescents and young adults, the data showed.
Similarly, adolescents displayed higher antibody levels than young adults, the researchers said.
Antibody levels declined with age, with study participants age 80 and older having the lowest, according to the researchers.
The thing that's weird about this study is not the age differences it confirmed, but the timing of its release. That Covid "discriminated" on the basis of age has been known for nearly a year, but it took so many months to look at antibody counts vs. age? I find the researchers' incuriosity curious.
