I came across the term when reading about the risks of a COVID vaccine.
I tried reading the Wikipedia article, but it was far too complicated for me.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent_enhancement
In: Biology
Antibodies are protein molecules that can attach specifically to some infectious thing, such as a virus. The immune system has cells that then attach to the other side of the antibody and take both it and the attached virus inside the cell, where it is destroyed. If for whatever reason the virus doesn’t get destroyed by the immune system cell, then that virus particle got a free ride inside a cell and can now infect it.
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