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People with hidden immunity against Covid-19
- jc_811 6y agoFor anyone curious to learn more about our immune system I highly recommend the book "An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System". It will really open your eyes into how complex, and in most cases unknown, our immune system is. It's fascinating what sort of internal defenses arise out of the chemical soup of billions of years of evolution.
- rotexo 6y agoI'm glad this is getting attention, but I don't like how this line is written: "Most bizarrely of all, when researchers tested blood samples taken years before the pandemic started, they found T cells which were specifically tailored to detect proteins on the surface of Covid-19." If you look at the linked article (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867420306103?via%3Dihub https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009286742...), it is pretty clearly stated that these T cells are considered cross reactive (maybe arising from previous exposures to other coronaviruses). They couldn't be specific for a virus when they arose before that virus even started spreading.
- Fjolsvith 6y agoPage Unavailable