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When you say average here, is that in the sense of average resistance over time for a given patient or average resistance across a population? The paper seemed
by whoisburbansky 6y ago
When you say average here, is that in the sense of average resistance over time for a given patient or average resistance across a population? The paper seemed to imply a great deal of heterogeneity in individual responses to the variant, so significant average would just be something like part of the population affected very badly, another part not at all, vs everyone affected mildly?
- alevskaya 6y agoAveraged over a population - some people will have resistant sera and others not depending on the parts of sars-cov-2 targeted by their polyvalent antibody response. Note that this is only looking at antibodies, not T-cell responses... so the clinical consequences are harder to predict, but it's certainly a bit concerning.
- whoisburbansky 6y agoAh, I see. Thanks, that clears things up quite a bit. It’s potentially mildly bad news but not the end of the world, is what it sounds like then.