Immunity to COVID-19 is probably higher than tests have shown.

[2greys]

New research from Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital shows that many people with mild or asymptomatic COVID-19 demonstrate so-called T-cell-mediated immunity to the new coronavirus, even if they have not tested positively for antibodies. According to the researchers, this means that public immunity is probably higher than antibody tests suggest. The article is freely available on the bioRxiv server and has been submitted for publication in a scientific journal.

news.ki.se/immunity-to-covi...

[RoadRunner44]

A bit more encouraging news. Thanks.

[Hidden]

Ooh I’ve just been reading this on the bbc but your link tells us more so thanks for that. I do love a bit of good news. It balances out my realisation today, based on the govt’s figs for daily positive cases, that transmission seems to have stabilised over the past week, whereas beforehand it was dropping 😕 And after all the bun fights on Sat night it will doubtless shoot UP!

[Hidden]

The only problem is there is no guarantee but one would hope the antibodies once made would reduce chance of any reinfection, from what I have heard / read there may not be any long term protection.

I recall reading many years ago, that we only get flu, viruses if we have never come into contact with it previously, but there doesn't seem to be any guarantees with covid-19

[2greys in reply to Hidden]

"May not", it is a new virus, nobody can really say yay or nay. They are just covering their posteriors. As long as it lasts until a vaccine is rolled out then that is good.

But any vaccine that gives immunity may not be long lasting either and require booster shots on a regular basis. The same difference, immunity from one is the same as immunity from the other.

[Hidden in reply to 2greys]

yes agreed.

[RufusRuffcut123 in reply to 2greys]

My niece has just been re-infected with the virus and has to isolate again. The first time she and her husband came down with COVID 19 they were both quite ill at home. Both in their early 40s. This time it is just my niece who was reinfected but they are both isolating. I think they are giving a shout- out Too soon

[Hidden in reply to RufusRuffcut123]

How long ago did they first suffer? Have they contacted the media? This is major news if they have

[RufusRuffcut123 in reply to Hidden]

I’ll have to check on that. But they are in Jobs in 5he special-effects industry in Los Angeles when they first became ill, probably 2-3 months ago. They transferred to Atlanta to work on a new film and the group all had to get tested because they handle equipment ect., and my niece was the only one who became re-infected. This is recent,

[2greys in reply to Hidden]

My partner works in a nursing home and she got infected, brought it back home and I was infected, this was in April. She returned back to the nursing home after, where the virus was still running rampant, neither of us have been re-infected since.

[RufusRuffcut123 in reply to 2greys]

Luck of the draw I suppose . However, working in a nursing home where she got it in the first place, probably made her more diligent about the virus when she returned to work. Maybe they had better PPE then too. I have a feeling that it goes much deeper than that. Human physiology is very interesting, but we are all different. I hope science finds some answers soon, About bloodgroups, genetics etc

[2greys in reply to RufusRuffcut123]

Perhaps your niece did not actually have Covid-19 in the first place. Early in the year there was also a very wicked strain of influenza doing the rounds.

[GeorgeI in reply to 2greys]

Yes there was a virus going round which had huge exhaution with it which a lot of people think was covid, but it wasn't. I had both Very different.

Also there are people who can be expelling the virus for quite a while after, so there are cases which test positive then negative then positive again. The debate at the moment is if the later positive is active virus or not, or just the lungs clearing the last of the junk left in there