Re:Had Covid? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime
by swader999 on Saturday May 29, 2021 @02:46AM
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ADE doesn't really show up until years later with different strains and different virus.
Re:Had Covid? You’ll probably make antibodies for a lifetime
by amluto on Saturday May 29, 2021 @11:01AM
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By that standard, you also can’t rule out disease-induced ADE, dengue style.
But the vaccine developers do know what they’re doing. IIRC, with SARS, a lot of research was done that suggested that antibodies against N might cause ADE but antibodies against S would not. If that carries over to COVID, then maybe one is better off with a vaccine than natural disease: the latter induces antibodies against N but the former does not.
Sure, one can quibble about whether maybe some of the very small number of people who got a vaccine more than a couple weeks before a severe COVID case had a form of ADE, but that’s like saying that we haven’t ruled out that seatbelts might kill people. In both cases, the risk that a protective measure harms the recipient is massively outweighed by the degree to which the protective measure protects the recipient.