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Re:Almost one-third of Florida children tested are positive ... by raphlinus on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:08PM (#23874901)
As long as we're tossing around citations to the scientific literature which supposedly support our arguments, here's one I'm sure you will enjoy: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.11.20086439v...
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Re:Almost one-third of Florida children tested are positive ... by __blockcipher__ on Friday July 17, 2020 @05:07PM (#23875569)
See, they use general human coronaviruses as a model, instead of SARS-1, which is incredibly functionally and structurally similar to SARS-2.

Why would you willfully ignore the enormous research literature showing enduring immunity developing from SARS-1? Oh, right, because either you haven't read it or you don't like that it doesn't support your conclusions.

It's like, imagine we're discussing H1N1 reinfection, and we have a highly similar H1N0 which varies very slightly, and we know that doesn't lead to reinfection. But instead you look at a number of Influenza viruses in the same family but not nearly as similar.

Don't you see how ridiculous that is?

We obviously should use SARS-1 as a model for SARS-2.

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