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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/01/ [login to see] 09.htm
Real Science: Immune system mounts a lasting defense after recovery from COVID-19
The findings, published in Nature, provide the strongest evidence yet that the immune system "remembers" the virus and, remarkably, continues to improve the quality of antibodies even after the infection has waned.
*** Antibodies produced months after the infection showed increased ability to block SARS-CoV-2, as well as its mutated versions such as the South African variant. ***
The researchers found that these improved antibodies are produced by immune cells that have kept evolving, apparently due to a continued exposure to the remnants of the virus hidden in the gut tissue.
Based on these findings, researchers suspect that when the recovered patient next encounters the virus, the response would be both faster and more effective, preventing re-infection.
Link to the actual science, not some stupid internet 'science' blog:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s4 [login to see] 7-w
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/01/ [login to see] 09.htm
Real Science: Immune system mounts a lasting defense after recovery from COVID-19
The findings, published in Nature, provide the strongest evidence yet that the immune system "remembers" the virus and, remarkably, continues to improve the quality of antibodies even after the infection has waned.
*** Antibodies produced months after the infection showed increased ability to block SARS-CoV-2, as well as its mutated versions such as the South African variant. ***
The researchers found that these improved antibodies are produced by immune cells that have kept evolving, apparently due to a continued exposure to the remnants of the virus hidden in the gut tissue.
Based on these findings, researchers suspect that when the recovered patient next encounters the virus, the response would be both faster and more effective, preventing re-infection.
Link to the actual science, not some stupid internet 'science' blog:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s4 [login to see] 7-w
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/01/ [login to see] 09.htm
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Note: "The team plans to study more people to better understand what role the viral stowaways may play in both the progression of the disease and in immunity."
"“This is really exciting news. The type of immune response we see here could potentially provide protection for quite some time, by enabling the body to mount a rapid and effective response to the virus upon re-exposure,” says Michel C. Nussenzweig, the Zanvil A. Cohn and Ralph M. Steinman Professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, whose team has been tracking and characterizing antibody response in Covid-19 patients since the early days of the pandemic in New York."
Could potentially...so more research needed to see what this means in the long run. It's something to pursue in research is what this means.
"“This is really exciting news. The type of immune response we see here could potentially provide protection for quite some time, by enabling the body to mount a rapid and effective response to the virus upon re-exposure,” says Michel C. Nussenzweig, the Zanvil A. Cohn and Ralph M. Steinman Professor and head of the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, whose team has been tracking and characterizing antibody response in Covid-19 patients since the early days of the pandemic in New York."
Could potentially...so more research needed to see what this means in the long run. It's something to pursue in research is what this means.
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This is helpful...for those who actually survive. This is not helpful for the ~450,000 Americans who have died from the virus.
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LTC Kevin B.
SSgt (Join to see) -
'The definition of achieving herd immunity is in one of 2 ways *OR* a combination of both:
1) Natural course (ie: we don't get a cure/immunization that works)
2) Enough people immunized'
You can rule out #2 because Trump and his administration were calling for lifting the lockdowns to pursue herd immunity well before any vaccine was even approved. So, their strategy was convincing governors to lift the lockdowns and letting the virus run its natural course.
'The definition of achieving herd immunity is in one of 2 ways *OR* a combination of both:
1) Natural course (ie: we don't get a cure/immunization that works)
2) Enough people immunized'
You can rule out #2 because Trump and his administration were calling for lifting the lockdowns to pursue herd immunity well before any vaccine was even approved. So, their strategy was convincing governors to lift the lockdowns and letting the virus run its natural course.
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OK. I get it. Let's assume an immunization never made it to the public, you are in favor of a forever lockdown and all the negative things that come with it...
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LTC Kevin B.
SSgt (Join to see) - The lockdowns were a tactic to slow the spread of the virus a) so that we wouldn't overwhelm the health system and b) to buy time for the eventual development of a vaccine. The lockdowns never were a tactic to kill the virus, and they never were intended to be a perpetual state of being for our society.
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