Corcaigh_the_Cat
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Antibody study gives 'clearest insight yet' into number of people who've had COVID-19 in England
Don't know why this news is not headlines on BBC:
A major testing programme, led by Imperial College London, found that just under 6% of England's population - an estimated 3.4 million people - had antibodies to COVID-19 and were likely to have previously had the virus prior to the end of June.
This is more than 12 times the number of cases shown by the government's official figures, which state a total of 270,971 people in England had a positive coronavirus test confirmed by a laboratory as of 4pm on Wednesday.
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...had-covid-19-antibody-study-suggests-12048413
Doesn’t this also put the death rate down by a considerable amount?Antibody study gives 'clearest insight yet' into number of people who've had COVID-19 in England
Don't know why this news is not headlines on BBC:
A major testing programme, led by Imperial College London, found that just under 6% of England's population - an estimated 3.4 million people - had antibodies to COVID-19 and were likely to have previously had the virus prior to the end of June.
This is more than 12 times the number of cases shown by the government's official figures, which state a total of 270,971 people in England had a positive coronavirus test confirmed by a laboratory as of 4pm on Wednesday.
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...had-covid-19-antibody-study-suggests-12048413
that really is good news, especially if t-cell stuff is right as well it’s likely to be even higher number of people who’ve had it
A quick Google comes up with lots of instances of people who have been infected twice, although 'a lot' is a small number in 10s of millions. Also, we'll have no idea if a previously asymptomatic person has got it a second time.What has been observable in countries that have widespread infection (ie. not one single case of someone having it twice) is now being confirmed by immunologists.
We should have a normal, long term immune response to Sars Cov 2.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/16/world/coronavirus-covid-19.html#link-2f7e6633
This means that, even if you do catch it in future years, it will most likely be a mild or asymptomatic illness.
A quick Google comes up with lots of instances of people who have been infected twice, although 'a lot' is a small number in 10s of millions. Also, we'll have no idea if a previously asymptomatic person has got it a second time.
A quick Google comes up with lots of instances of people who have been infected twice, although 'a lot' is a small number in 10s of millions. Also, we'll have no idea if a previously asymptomatic person has got it a second time.
Some anecdotal examples cited here but I agree they are few and far between. It would be virtually impossible to know if non-tested asymptomatic people catch it again later. As these could be 70% of cases that's a big unknown.As far as I know, there is not a single instance that hasn't turned out to be the result of a false negative/all clear.
Some anecdotal examples cited here but I agree they are few and far between. It would be virtually impossible to know if non-tested asymptomatic people catch it again later. As these could be 70% of cases that's a big unknown.
That’s good news!
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