{"id":605,"date":"2023-08-18T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=605"},"modified":"2023-09-06T01:39:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T05:39:00","slug":"how-covid-19-changes-the-immune-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/how-covid-19-changes-the-immune-system\/","title":{"rendered":"How COVID-19 Changes the Immune System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell\/fulltext\/S0092-8674(23)00796-1\" rel=\"noopener\">paper published on August&nbsp;18 in the journal <i>Cell<\/i><\/a>, scientists report that innate immune cells\u2014a critical part of the immune system activated to battle COVID-19\u2014remain altered for at least a year after infection. The finding suggests that these cells may play a role in some of the lingering symptoms associated with Long COVID, although more studies are needed to confirm that connection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a paper published on August&nbsp;18 in the journal <i>Cell<\/i>, scientists report that innate immune cells\u2014a critical part of the immune system activated to battle COVID-19\u2014remain altered for at least a year after infection. The finding suggests that these cells may play a role in some of the lingering symptoms associated with Long COVID, although more studies are needed to confirm that connection.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/how-covid-19-changes-the-immune-system\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How COVID-19 Changes the Immune System<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,203,67,204,11,8,14],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-immune-system","tag-inflammation","tag-innate-immune-cells","tag-long-covid","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}