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And mostly young. It is too early to extrapolate and conclude how it will behave in the unvaccinated, less healthy and older population. We will know soon. Maybe it will be good news. The only thing I have seen is some comments from a doctor in RSA who said most of the hospitalized there were unvaccinated and had not had previous infection.
If you were to throw a dart at random, you'd hit more unvaccinated and not previously infected South Africans as they're the majority.
An interesting twitter post from Scott Gottlieb, one of my favorites sources. I don't understand where his suspicions arise in the data, but it is not the first time he has said this. I wish he would explain it.
An interesting twitter post from Scott Gottlieb, one of my favorites sources. I don't understand where his suspicions arise in the data, but it is not the first time he has said this. I wish he would explain it.
Why would they have antibodies or t-cells for a disease they were never exposed to. Even if you consider the innate immune system poster above pointed out (correctly) you have to take into account that viruses adapt too. Very well. Omicron is an adaptation that gets around the immune system better than delta. Way better if you want to take the reports at face value. So when going into battle with the monster is it better to have a shield (neutralizing antibodies) and a sword (t-cells) or go naked?
They have been several studies - I've posted the links in the covid threads several times - that show t cell reactivity to SARS-CoV-2 via blood samples drawn pre-pandemic.
There seroprevalence is about 85% from what I have read. UK same. US even higher.
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Most (83% [n = 553]) participants who lived in the rural community and most (83% [n = 499]) who lived in the urban community had both BD3 and BD5 blood collected (Appendix). Seroprevalence, adjusted for assay sensitivity and specificity, in the rural community was lower at BD1 than in the urban community (1% [95% CrI 0%–2%] vs. 15% [95% CrI 12%–18%]; p<0.001), increasing after the first wave of infections (at BD3) to 7% (95% CrI 5%–9%) in the rural community and 27% (95% CrI 23%–31%) in the urban community (p<0.001) (Figure 2; Appendix). After the second wave (BD5), seroprevalence increased to 26% (95% CrI 22%–29%; p<0.001) in the rural community and to 41% (95% CrI 37%–45%; p<0.001) in the urban community (Appendix).
Don't need to worry. I'm boosted. It is the unvaxxed fatties and alkies and smokers and boomers that the omicron will be taking home to Jesus. In Fauci We Trust!
Please note that of the recent cases in this study - only 177 (13%) were unvaccinated while 1103 (87%) were vaccinated and many boosted.
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