Researchers reveal why viruses like SARS-CoV-2 can reinfect hosts and evade immune response

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Using a tool called VirScan, Brigham investigators found that people produced shared antibody responses to certain regions of the virus, likely leading to selective pressure and new variants that can repeatedly escape detection by prior immunity.

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