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I thought the the argument against it is that survivors develop antibodies that neutralize the virus in vitro.
by fab1an 7y ago
I thought the the argument against it is that survivors develop antibodies that neutralize the virus in vitro.
- snapetom 7y agoThere's enough anecdotal evidence of re-infection that suggest otherwise, although there a wide variety of reasons for that -bad tests, they were never fully recovered in the first place, etc. SARS is believed to use ADE, and COVID-19 is closely related to SARS. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3019510/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3019510/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25073113 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25073113 On the good news-ish side, a MERS vaccine entered into Phase 2 trials at Walter Reed late last year, although I can't find anything about that more recently. MERS is another coronavirus, but doesn't use ADE.