Re:Covid-19 in Iceland: Violated Isolation and Infected over...
by lbeltrame on Saturday September 26, 2020 @01:34PM
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> The T-Cell immunity research shows there may be more people who are immune than we think
As far as I understand from the currently-available data, at best, cross-reactive T cells may lessen the disease, but not prevent it. However, the data are not definitive.
Even though they've mostly had elimination (with one re-lockdown due to Auckland), I do agree it's a bad long term strategy. The T-Cell immunity research shows there may be more people who are immune than we think, and Sweden shows us this virus can safely burn out in a population.
People from NZ may not be able to safely travel out/into their nation for years.
I am very doubtful of a safe vaccine in any reasonable amount of time. Fatalities have dropped to the floor across the board, so everyone is going on and on about cases. We don't even collect the viral load amounts for PCR tests in most countries, so we have no idea how many infections are just traces of virus, versus full infections.
This whole show has been a clusterfuck. I think my predictions from March are coming true:
https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/covid-19-is-two-disease...