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TWiV 675: Forget what you’ve herd about immunity

26 October 2020 by Vincent Racaniello

Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, then we discuss Bill Foege’s letter to CDC director Robert Redfield, the false promise of herd immunity for COVID-19, secret blueprints for SARS-CoV-2 vaccine trials released, and neuropilin-1 as a possible entry protein for the virus.

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Filed Under: Commentary, This Week in Virology Tagged With: ACE2, coronavirus, COVID-19, entry protein, neuropilin, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2, vaccine, viral, virology, virus, viruses

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  1. Dave says

    26 October 2020 at 10:27 pm

    And yet it appears that Tokyo achieved herd immunity by refusing to lock down everything. https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200924/Tokyo-citizens-may-have-developed-COVID-19-herd-immunity-say-researchers.aspx

    As an aside, Japanese were wearing masks long before Covid struck, yet look at how large a percentage of people tested serologically positive. I guess masks don’t provide sufficient protection.

  2. Dennis says

    30 October 2020 at 6:02 am

    Dave,
    https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/4/28/21237922/antibody-test-covid-19-immunity

  3. Dave says

    1 November 2020 at 10:03 pm

    Dennis

    Thanks. But it is almost unheard of for someone who was infected to be infected again. So the WHO seems overly cautious to me, which is not unusual.

  4. Rita says

    9 November 2020 at 12:55 pm

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