Colorized scanning electron micrograph of cells heavily infected with COVID-19 virus particles (IMAGE)
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Colorized scanning electron micrograph of cells heavily infected with COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) virus particles (orange). The inset is an artist’s rendition of a single virus with its spike proteins — the sites acted upon by antibodies stimulated by COVID-19 vaccines. A Johns Hopkins Medicine study suggests antibody levels stay higher over an extended period of time in people who were infected by the virus and then received two doses of vaccine.
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Graphic created by M.E. Newman, Johns Hopkins Medicine, using public domain images. Micrograph courtesy of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and SARS-CoV-2 artwork courtesy of UK Research and Innovation’s MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
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