Posted on 09/02/2020 7:24:29 AM PDT by familyop
Antibodies...last for at least four months after diagnosis and do not fade quickly...Tuesday’s report, from tests on more than 30,000 people in Iceland, is the most extensive work yet on the immune system’s response to the virus over time, and is good news for efforts to develop vaccines...Nearly 1% of Iceland’s population was infected in this first wave of the pandemic, meaning the other 99% are still vulnerable to the virus. The infection fatality rate was 0.3%. That’s about three times the fatality rate of seasonal flu...
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Iceland is an interesting place. Its small, fully isolated population allows you to do more complete sampling than virtually anywhere.
Now that we know a bit more about the virus, there is some level of innate immunity to it. It could be 1%, it could be 35%, but it is greater than zero. This means the above statement is wrong.
The common cold does not have a vacine.
It's not because we can't make one. It's because there are a lot of strains and you'd have to go through trials for every one of them. Each trial would cost billions and for all of them, probably a trillion dollars. When you're all said and done, all the work achieved and the beautiful vaccine(s) created....it prevents the sniffles and a runny nose.
Then the next year there are two more. You'd need a lot of shots to deliver 200+ vaccines and a booster every year. It's not worth the effort.
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