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