CCP-KAWASAKI
COVID MYSTERY Kawasaki-like inflammatory disease linked to coronavirus is now affecting young adults not just kids
YOUNG adults are also being hit by the Kawasaki-like mysterious illness striking children amid the coronavirus pandemic, warn doctors.
At least six people in their 20s are being treated for the life-threatening syndrome in California and New York...
..Dr Jennifer Lighter, who specializes in pediatric infectious diseases at NYU Langone, New York City, said, “the older [patients] have had a more severe course” of Kawasaki-like inflammatory illness...an “overwhelming” impact to their heart and several organs.
Coronavirus immunity
Coronavirus immunity may only last six months raising doubts over ‘immunity passports’
The discovery by scientists at the University of Amsterdam has raised questions over whether ‘immunity passports’ could be a route out of lockdown...
Researchers tested 10 men for four coronaviruses, which cause the common cold, regularly over the course of 35 year and found that there was ‘an alarmingly short duration of protective immunity’.
The found that after six months the levels of antibodies had substantially reduced and by 12 months people were frequently reinfected with the virus, The Times reported...
The study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed and did not include women, suggests people may have to get the jab annually to be immune to the bug.
The Mirror:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/coronavirus-immunity-only-last-six-22074166