Epidemic Podcast: Are Antibodies the Holy Grail?

An Interview with Kaitlyn Sadtler and Matt Memmoli

Does someone who has experienced a COVID-19 infection acquire lasting immunity to the virus? In this episode of Epidemic, co-hosts Dr. Celine Gounder and Ron Klain discuss the science of the immune response and the role antibodies can play in how the immune system responds to an infection. They talk with Kaitlyn Sadtler, PhD, a Chief of NIBIB's Section on Immunoengineering at the National Institutes of Health, and Dr. Matt Memmoli, director of the Lab of Infectious Diseases Clinical Studies Unit at the National Institutes of Health, about how the body builds immunity to future infections, as well as how scientists determine how long such immunity will last.