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What's with WHO statements that there is no evidence of immunity for covid19 infected?

• redis_mlc 6y ago
  I haven't seen anything confirming that, either weakly or strongly. It's unlikely to be true, since most diseases don't behave that way, but we'll see. All we really know is that the current corona tests don't seem to be very accurate.
• kaetemi 6y ago
  They don't want people to be confident, they don't want to take the risk that they skip vaccination.
  • jobigoud 6y ago
    If I understand correctly, no immunity would imply that there won't be a vaccine.
    • kaetemi 6y ago
      Well, they also flip-flopped between the wearing of masks in public communications, just to keep supplies available to medical staff...
• arcticbull 6y ago
  They are correct: there is no evidence specifically of COVID immunity after infection. There's a very (very) high likelihood based on everything we know about humans and viruses (corona flavored or otherwise), but it's fair to expect a study confirming as much before making a global public health policy decision of that magnitude. This article references the WHO statement [1]. [1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/warns-coronavirus-immunity-passports-200425150532564.html https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/04/warns-coronavirus-imm...
• qubex 6y ago
  As others have noted, “not confirmed” does not mean that we have to take all that we know about viruses and immunology and trash it (yet). In all likelihood in due course it shall be confirmed. There’s no reason to believe this virus is fundamentally different from any other.
• JoshuaDavid 6y ago
  "There is no evidence [from rigorous peer-reviewed research] that X is true" and "there is evidence that X is not true" are not the same thing.