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There may be no immunity against Covid-19, new Wuhan study suggests
- throwaway888abc 6y agoI read that too before [1]. On contradiction [2], from today. "Despite that, Gates said recent evidence points to the antibody response being "very strong," which suggests about a year of immunity to anyone who gets the disease." It gets incredibly difficult to make opinion on all this. In the meantime, people are dying. That's verifiable. [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-antibody/antibody-levels-in-recovered-covid-19-patients-decline-quickly-research-idUSKBN23T1CJ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-antibo... [2] https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/25/us/bill-gates-coronavirus-town-hall-us/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/25/us/bill-gates-coronavirus...
- lbeltrame 6y agoLack of antibodies in the bloodstream does not equate to lack of immunity. - There could be antibodies at the mucosal level (IgA) - There could be cellular responses (T cells) that aren't detected - There could be immunological memory at play after antibodies aren't detectable anymore A critique of the work, a little heavy-handed: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/06/17/some-forecasting-for-covid-19-has-failed-a-discussion-of-taleb-and-ioannidis-et-al/#comment-1363907 https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/06/17/some-forec... (this specific comment)
- throwaway888abc 6y agoThanks for link!