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Your first link only focuses on (the easier to test) antibodies, and doesn't mention T cell memory, which is the much more important factor in long-term immunit
by hobofan 6y ago
Your first link only focuses on (the easier to test) antibodies, and doesn't mention T cell memory, which is the much more important factor in long-term immunity.
And of course there are going to be individual cases of reinfections with 55+ million cases.
- chaostheory 6y agoYour logic checks out, but are there peer reviewed papers that back up your argument? This isn't my field, so I'm not aware of any.
- hobofan 6y agoThere is one right in the list on the CDC page you linked[0]. There is also a recent Nature paper[1] that shows that T cells levels are stable for at least the first 100 days they observed. I don't know of a specific link to send you for that, but that usually indicates T cell immunity on the timescale of multiple years (otherwise some drop in levels would have already been visible in the observed time period). [0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7427556 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7427556 [1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-01143-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-01143-2