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The bigger question is how effective the acquired immunity is, and the only way to test it would be to infect a bunch of people who test positive for antibodies
by AstralStorm 6y ago
The bigger question is how effective the acquired immunity is, and the only way to test it would be to infect a bunch of people who test positive for antibodies or reactive T cells. Pretty dangerous.
Then you'd catalogue symptoms shown by those people held in quarantine, with different innoculum doses given including placebo.
Somewhat similar to a phase 3 trial of a vaccine too, you can do it at the same time.
- tim333 6y ago>the only way to test it would be to infect a bunch of people That's not actually true. You can get a database of people who've had it and follow up on them to see how they get on in terms of reinfection etc. I'm kind of curious in my own case - I had it in Apr, had a positive antibody test in Jul - if I'm getting further exposure and antibody top ups. Probably I am as a public transport user in London but there's a limited access to test labs and the like.
- AstralStorm 6y agoThat's insufficient as you cannot know if people got reinfected but had low symptoms. Further, you cannot know if these same people are infectious during some brief window. (Carriers.)