Monkeys develop virus immunity after infection, vaccine: studies

[Initech]

Source: Yahoo News

Two studies on monkeys published on Wednesday offer hope that humans can develop protective immunity to the novel coronavirus.

The studies, published in the journal Science, looked at a prototype vaccine and whether infection with SARS-CoV-2 provides immunity against re-exposure.

Both questions are critical as researchers tackle the virus, which has infected nearly five million people around the world and caused more than 325,000 deaths.

The studies were carried out on rhesus macaque monkeys to see whether they develop protective virus immunity from natural infection or from a vaccine.

"The global COVID-19 pandemic has made the development of a vaccine a top biomedical priority, but very little is currently known about protective immunity to the SARS-CoV-2 virus," said senior author Dan Barouch, director of the Center for Virology and Vaccine Research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.

"In these two studies, we demonstrate in rhesus macaques that prototype vaccines protected against SARS-CoV-2 infection and that SARS-CoV-2 infection protected against re-exposure," Barouch said.

Read more: https://news.yahoo.com/monkeys-develop-virus-immunity-infection-vaccine-studies-201111396.html

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Yes this is some excellent news on the vaccine front!

[Steelrolled]

1. Yes good news

I think this result is expected, but it provides more evidence.

It seems to me, given the huge number of cases over several months, that we would know if re-infection was commonly occurring.

[Initech]

3. Yeah it definitely needs more evidence.

But everyday there's new advances on the vaccine front. Somewhere we will find the right combination of ingredients to kill this thing.

[McKim]

2. This is Real

This is Real, “Science” the journal, does not publish unproven junk Science.

[truthisfreedom]

4. Great time to be a monkey!

[ffr]

5. What good is testing on Monkeys? God made us, we're different.

Otherwise, if the vaccine that works on Monkeys also works on humans, it re-verifies that we share DNA with an evolutionary common ancestor.

Or God was an underachieving simpleton and copied parts from both of our species because He was too fucking lazy on the seventh day to make us as unique as the Bible makes us sound.

[Warpy]

6. Are you really expecting that book to make sense?

Oh, the Elhoistic part of Genesis they cribbed from the Sumerians comes close to the big bang, but we're still finding out just how advanced the Sumerians were. The Hebrews, not so much, and most of that book is a series of tall tales and half histories cobbled together out of the oral traditions of various peoples around the eastern Mediterranean.

As for the dead letter biblical literalists, those hosers are on their own. I have no desire to come out of retirement to save their dumb butts.

I'm just hoping enough of our close relatives survive this thing, apparently they're as susceptible to it as we are.

[angel823]

7. this

Well said, Warpy!

Angel in Texasperated

[DeminPennswoods]

8. Not surprising

Have thought all along, and contiunue to do so, that the reports of people being "re-infected" and anti-bodies not providing protection were over-hyped and not too credible.