Coronavirus good news thread

Erimus74 said:
Fabio I love your posts, always so positive & bringing good news to the board, always put a spring in my step, keep em coming 👍
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Thanks for the kind words Erimus. There are a few on this thread who consistently post good news bits and I look forward to opening it one day and reading about a successful treatment or two 🤞 Brighter days are coming soon, I’m sure 👍
 
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Heard the MD of Roche speak yesterday and he thought by the end of May we would have firm evidence if the virus can be caught twice or not and be able to produce accurate antibody kits. Roche/Abbot Labs say they can produce 1 million anti body kits a week from the beginning of June. So we can start to calculate accurately how many people have had the virus.

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There are currently 7 human trials of a possible vaccine running - very likely something will be available in January 2021.
 
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Its amazing how little we know about this virus - its been out for at least 5 months and we have all this fab technology nowadays and no one can answer if you can catch it twice yet.
 
Redwurzel said:
Its amazing how little we know about this virus - its been out for at least 5 months and we have all this fab technology nowadays and no one can answer if you can catch it twice yet.
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Probably because that's something that can only ever be established in the fullness of time. Only in very few cases does immunity to a virus last indefinitely (measles is one notable exception to the general rule).

Even with chicken pox which is often also cited as a disease for which people get "life-long" immunity, the virus stays dormant in the body and can come back to cause infection decades later, in the form of shingles.

If we look at the most similar other coronaviruses like MERS and SARS, with them the level of antibodies in infected people tails off at a rate that means effective immunity probably only lasts about two years.

We know that the body produces an immune response to this virus and generates protective antibodies but what we don't know is how strong or long-lasting this protective effect will be. Assuming the virus stays around long enough for us to find out (and many epidemiologists think it will) ultimately only time will tell.
 
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Redwurzel said:
Its amazing how little we know about this virus - its been out for at least 5 months and we have all this fab technology nowadays and no one can answer if you can catch it twice yet.
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Viruses and bacteria, and how the interact with the body, are incredibly complex things to study. I think we are doing ok given the small amount of time this virus has existed
 
Liamo said:
Yes - there's probably been more research done into this virus in four months, than is normally done in decades for other viruses.
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Yeah, but you can't just throw resources at something. It's length of time in the human body that will allow us to work out exactly how it works.
 
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