RE: Different discussion on highest levels of Herd immunity, etc4 Sep 2020 00:54
LL, I was watching an article on CNN tonight about the success, or otherwise, of the Swedish herd immunity process.
Although they are currently showing a low mortality, they had high hopes that the population now would be showing a high immunity rate, but when testing the population to see the level of antibodies they were carrying they were disappointed to find that only circa 6% (it may have been 9% however, as I wasn’t paying full attention at that time).
There was then a section where a guy came on from an institution (I don’t know if it was Marcus Buggert), who intimated that although the standard tests for identifying antibodies were showing low results that these results may be significantly underestimating the level of immunity that there actually is in the population, as the T-cell activity that they had been investigating bore witness to the likelihood that immunity levels may be significantly higher than is currently being identified under the standard means.
Were these investigations into T-cell activity to be confirmed as being a truer level of herd immunity than that being shown under standard antibody testing, it is logical to assume that the interest level in companies who are at the forefront of T-cell research would greatly increase.
Whether that would bring any interest to bare on the work that SCLP have/are/will be conducting into the T-cell sphere is open to conjecture, but it is certainly a positive.
IMHO