Coronavirus: Immune clue sparks treatment hope
UK scientists are to begin testing a treatment that it is hoped could counter the effects of Covid-19 in the most seriously ill patients.
They have looked at immune cells in the blood of 60 Covid-19 patients and found an apparent crash in the numbers of T-cells. In a microlitre drop of blood, normal healthy adults have between 2,000 and 4,000 T-cells, also called T lymphocytes.The researchers say these findings pave the way for them to develop a"fingerprint test" to check the levels of T-cells in the blood which could provide early indications of who might go on to develop more severe disease.
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