Reminders in the same arm, a key gesture for better immunity?

Do you remember the arm you have given to the nurse, for your first vaccination against the COVVID? What if you then did the others in the same? It would be apparently desirable. In a study published in the journal Cell, Australian scientists show that, in general, receiving a vaccine reminder in the same arm that the first dose can generate a more efficient and faster immune response. “” It is a fundamental discovery on how the immune system is organized to better respond to external threats “, Ensures Professor Tri Phan, director of the precision immunology program at the Garvan Institute for Medical Research in Sydney, one of the two main authors of the study.

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