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However, this stalk is coated with chains of sugar molecules called glycans from the host's cells. And the sugar coating keeps antibodies from recognizing, and therefore inactivating, the virus.

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Later, immune cells use these proteins to produce antibodies that will block the actual virus' spike proteins from binding to people's cells and infecting them.