We know the reinfection rate after 2 years on a disease we did not even know existed a year ago? How would we know that?
Immunity to mononucleosis lasts for about 10 years. After about 10 years, you can get it again. Everyone is not getting reinfected, because it is not everywhere.
If immunity to Covid-19 lasts for a year or so, then we could expect people to start getting reinfected in about a year. We would get it over and over again on average every two years...
Or maybe not. We will not know until we have patients who have had a year ago, which we do not have yet.
Previous vaccines involve either living or dead proteins to setoff antibodies. As you mentioned, antibody immunity is very weak, so they are attempting to trigger other parts of the immune system. It is all very new.
You actually have a good point there. I knew that if you posted for long enough, you would find a good point.
Not approved, and not 300,000 doses, yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regeneron_PharmaceuticalsIn the filing, it specified that it currently had 50,000 doses and that it expected to reach a total of 300,000 doses "within the next few months."
Hoping it will go away due to natural herd immunity is not a choice. It is refusing to do the hard work, and hoping for a miracle. Sometimes miracles (rare bits of good luck) happen, but often they do not.
And yet they have worked... Kind of makes you wonder.
There is no reason to believe that herd immunity is inevitable. If we do get it naturally, then as we die we will be replaced by people who do not have it. If we do not get it, then it will be endemic.
Will Mother Nature have her way? We have won against many diseases.
Earl (10-27-2020)
Other countries have closed their borders to us, so how do we force them to open their borders? Maybe we could invade them all, but that would not be normal.
And allowing viruses to just kill whoever they will is not what we do anymore. We have medical science and can defeat these viruses.
Earl (10-27-2020)
We have no choice but to accept herd immunity. Masks, social distancing, and other steps in attempt to interfere with the spread of the virus are like wearing long sleeves and sunglasses for a nuclear blast. Mother nature is going to have her way, and coronavirus will run its course. We can't stop inevitable herd immunity.
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Earl (10-27-2020)
Just saw a new British study suggesting that immunity only lasts about 3 months, give or take.
Can anyone explain scientifically how herd immunity would work if that was the case?
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Earl (10-27-2020)
Let's add that if we 'let the virus run it's course' our hospitals will be overrun, poor people will be dying horrible deaths in their homes, the ranks of health care workers will be decimated, doctors in ERs will be making life and death decisions on the spot 'sorry sir, you are too old for us to treat, be sure to make out your will' and the economic cost will astronomical. It's completely unworkable. Apparently some people think this is a binary choice, and it isn't.
cancel2 2022 (10-27-2020)
OMG!
didn't we just hear that for the first lockdown? you wanna do this again and turn us into a stone age economy?
we've made a lot of progress in therapeutics and recognizing best treatments ( like not rushing to ventillators)
vaccines are coming out end of year/early next year.
how about do with my family? my sister is immune compromised - she does not shop.
My mother is 87 -she'll shop occasionally - the point is they self quarantine due to being high risk
I use hygiene/distancing and go out and do alll the chores -we're all alive still
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