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Originally Posted by Hugh
You are asking what website is that? - do you mean the one I posted a link to in the post, and named as "the British Society for Immunology"?
There is nothing in your linked article that supports your proposition - the parts that mention immunity state
So you have had to have had a serious bout of COVID to have "better" immunity (which is what the "immune response" section on the image in my post said) - only two problems with that; 1) if you have a serious bout of COVID, you’ve probably been hospitalised (with the concomitant risk of death), and 2), as you have frequently stated, most people who catch it only have a mild case. As the article states
You can’t have it both ways - if people have had a mild case, they won’t have "better" immunity.
btw, this is a recent tweet from Professor Finn (one of the Profs mentioned in the BBC article). |
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Adam Finn
@adamhfinn
Masterful explanation of the uncertainties ahead. But one thing’s for sure, the more people get vaccinated the better things will be. The decision is not hard given what we know - it’s a:“the boat is sinking, shall I put on this life jacket?” type decision
I would not question this desirability of getting vaccinated. My point is that once you have had the vaccination and it has taken effect, being exposed to the virus is not something to be discouraged.
However, it is worth pointing out that even the scientists are disagreeing about how to deal with this virus, and so quoting a particular scientist or a particular medical body doesn’t actually prove anything.
Even the World Health Organisation doesn’t come out of this looking pretty.