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		Vecr on Sept 2, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Israel’s Covid-19 boosters are preventing infectio... What about cytotoxic T cells? What would prevent them from killing the cell?

dogma1138 on Sept 2, 2021 [–]

By the time you have a T Cell response the mRNA and the antigens would be long gone.

Vecr on Sept 2, 2021 | [–]

Not if it's a booster, or even the second dose. That's the whole idea of this chain, yeah?

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