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To: T.B. Yoits

“According to reality, those exposed to SARS in 2003 have immunity to SARS COVID-19.”

When getting COVID vaccination:


To test that possibility, Wang’s team compared neutralizing antibodies from the vaccinated SARS survivors—all health care workers in Singapore—with those from SARS patients who had not received a COVID-19 vaccine. Wang’s team also analyzed antibodies in three other groups: unvaccinated people who currently had COVID-19, along with vaccinated people who had recovered from SARS-CoV-2 or had never been infected with that virus.

The vaccinated SARS survivors were the only cohort whose antibodies neutralized 10 different coronaviruses, according to a new assay Wang’s team developed that tests the antibodies’ ability to block binding between ACE2 and the receptor-binding domains (RBDs) of different spikes. And the levels of the neutralizing antibodies were relatively high against each one. “It’s superinteresting,” says Neil King, a biomedical engineer at the University of Washington, Seattle, who is also working on pancoronavirus vaccines. “It may lead people to reprioritize their efforts.”

https://www.science.org/news/2021/08/covid-19-vaccines-may-trigger-superimmunity-people-who-had-sars-long-ago


31 posted on 08/31/2021 1:51:10 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: TexasGator
Those exposed to SARS in 2003 have immunity to SARS COVID-19, and not just those who got a COVID vaccination as you state. The Singapore data shows that SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells are present in all [emphasis mine] subjects who recovered from SARS 17 years ago.

From the report: "Singapore study shows that SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells are present in all recovered COVID-19 patients. These T cells were also found in all subjects who recovered from SARS 17 years ago..."

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-uncover-evidence-that-a-level-of-pre-existing-covid-19-sars-cov-2-immunity-is-present-in-the-general-population/

46 posted on 08/31/2021 2:46:10 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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