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Not so anecdotal: There is an Oncology professor in the UK who tested his staff of 200 and got ~10% for antibodies. A month later he expected 30%, but still got
by djsumdog 6y ago
Not so anecdotal: There is an Oncology professor in the UK who tested his staff of 200 and got ~10% for antibodies. A month later he expected 30%, but still got around 10% (https://unherd.com/thepost/professor-karol-sikora-fear-is-more-dangerous-than-the-virus/ https://unherd.com/thepost/professor-karol-sikora-fear-is-mo...)
There is a chance antibodies for this simply do not last very long, or that many people fight it off before it reaches the adaptive immune system and requires antibodies (there are many layers that have evolved in our immune systems).
There are many other viruses that don't produce long lasting immunity as well. Hepatitis B vaccines require 3 shots within a few months and even then, the take rate for it is only around 60%.
- lostlogin 6y agoThat link is rather dubious. eg "When the history books are written, the fear will have done much more damage than the virus". This is easy to say when you're one able to read the history book. It's all going to depend on what ones acceptable death rate is, and that gets dark pretty fast.
- acdha 6y agoThe author also has a history of controversy which definitely makes me want to take anything with a grain of salt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karol_Sikora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karol_Sikora There’s likely a reason why that’s on a conservative business’s vanity site and not a scientific journal.