In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% without symptoms

Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by lend000 on Saturday April 25, 2020 @06:34PM (#22982214)

I am also curious about this. As I understand it, an immune individual could have any mathematical subset of antibodies from the base set, which is the collection of all proteins that can bind to something on the surface of a COVID-19 virion. Furthermore, I would think these base sets can change slightly for different mutations of the virus.

Perhaps humans tend to have enough random antibody generation that they are likely to start mass producing most of the protein shapes that are able to bind to the virus? And as another commenter pointed out, there are not that many options to bind to.

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Re:In 4 US state prisons, 3,300 inmates test positive, 96% w... by vikramkr on Saturday April 25, 2020 @06:55PM (#22982361)

Look up VDJ recombination[0] for a sense of how antibodies are generated. Ling story short, yeah its pretty random in a really clever process that generates enormous variability. There are also only so many features to bind on the covid virus protein, which are what we test, but there are a lot of antibodies that our body can make against them

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