What about Covid immune response ? People who have been infected by the coronavirus ..... [View all]
People who have been infected by the coronavirus and have recovered could provide invaluable antibodies for covid-19 patients and return to work.
He told Frieden, “I’m rooting for the immunity.” Frieden responded, “You can root for it, but don’t count on it.”
Immunity varies with different diseases. Frieden gave the example of an epidemic of measles that took place on one of the Faroe Islands, an archipelago two hundred miles north of Scotland, in 1846, before a vaccine was available. “Everyone got it, a hundred per cent, because it is one of the most infectious diseases,” Frieden said. After the outbreak, there were no cases of measles on the island for sixty-five years. “Then measles came back, and again everyone on the island was infected—except those over sixty-five. They were all still immune.”
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