Immunity

[RWebb]

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-53248660

[dad911]

Can only hope. That might explain NY & NJ curves. Big spike in the beginning, despite opening up, cases and deaths still dropping now.

[93nav]

Original source for BBC article??

https://news.ki.se/immunity-to-covid-19-is-probably-higher-than-tests-have-shown?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=kasocial&utm_content=Immunity%20to%20COVID-19%20is%20probably%20higher%20than%20tests%20have% 20shown


I thought I had posted this before. Blood samples from 2015-2018 had t-cells which were active against covid-19.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/05/t-cells-found-covid-19-patients-bode-well-long-term-immunity

The teams also asked whether people who haven’t been infected with SARS-CoV-2 also produce cells that combat it. Thiel and colleagues analyzed blood from 68 uninfected people and found that 34% hosted helper T cells that recognized SARS-CoV-2. The La Jolla team detected this crossreactivity in about half of stored blood samples collected between 2015 and 2018, well before the current pandemic began. The researchers think these cells were likely triggered by past infection with one of the four human coronaviruses that cause colds; proteins in these viruses resemble those of SARS-CoV-2.

SARS blood samples and antibodies

https://www.livescience.com/sars-antibody-inhibits-new-coronavirus.html

[RSBob]

Good posts. No politics, no racism, no sexism. Very refreshing.

[flatbutt]

and an affirmation of how remarkable our biology is.