• @angarabebesi@lemmy.ml
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    62 years ago

    Levels of antibodies do not indicate level of immunity.

    You will not have elevated levels of antibodies for long periods of time. This is normal. What matters for immunity is your T and B cells.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      32 years ago

      Yeah, a friend of mine has family in Cuba, and he’s been tracking excess deaths there to see how their covalent vaccine has fared against the more modern ones. He said excess deaths have basically fallen to zero after they finished vaccinating everybody this last November, and the sixth wave was basically a tiny blip.

  • Catraism-Stalinism
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    22 years ago

    THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD SHUT EVERYONE IN THEIR HOUSES FOR A FEW WEEKS INSTEAD OF BEING DUMBASS “FREEDOM” HOGS

    NOW ITS ON TRACK TO BEING AN ENDEMIC

    I hate neoliberalism

    • SalamanderA
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      52 years ago

      We would need to coordinate the entire world to do so simultaneously, allow for no exceptions, and we would need to make sure that very few people manage sneak out to meet with others. We would also need to lock people individually (not as families) to prevent someone being inoculated near the end of the lockdown, or have a very long lockdown. Even then the probability of success is low. Endemism has always been the goal because we don’t have a good alternative.

      • HMH
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        32 years ago

        And all that would not even be enough, it’s not only humans that can be infected. From Wikipedia:

        Cats, dogs, ferrets, fruit bats, gorillas, pangolins, hamsters, mink, sea otters, pumas, snow leopards, tigers, lions, hyenas, tree shrews and whitetail deer can be infected with and have tested positive at least once for the virus.

        Good luck quarantining(lol)/culling all these animals…

      • @Pieroginator@lemmygrad.ml
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        22 years ago

        Exactly, I became alcoholic under lockdown and nationally we’ve pretty much caught it now that it’s been lifted. I still think the lockdown was fairly justifiable since it put less strain on health services and allowed vaccines which are fairly effective to be rolled out.

    • @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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      22 years ago

      It’s not practical. We don’t have a theoretical virus, we have an actual virus. There is one major country in the world pulling this off, that’s it.

    • Redpandalovely
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      22 years ago

      I go into a brief hibernation of sorts when there is a surge of cases. I do leave the house for essentials, but limit my social activities and contacts. I do this by choice to (potentially) decrease the burden on the healthcare system. However this is entirely by choice. Enforced total lock downs can be psychologically detrimental, especially if prolonged. It’s a difficult topic for sure.

  • Redpandalovely
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    12 years ago

    We know vaccines perform well to prevent severe disease. My question is, how many antibodies do we actually need to prevent infection (also taking T cells into consideration)? Even if there is a drop in protection where is the infection threshold?