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OK, this is from the Journal of the American Medical Association. A pretty good medical magazine but editorially definitely to the left (as is the AMA).
There are a few who do not know this, but there was a SARS-Cov-1 outbreak in 2003. It was somewhat contained and sort of disappeared before a vaccine could be developed and so far as I know has not been seen since.
Well, some researchers working with Covid vaccines decided to do a kind of nice little study. The idea was to see what kind of antibody response they might get if they gave the new vaccine to people who had the SARS-CoV-1 infection nearly two decades ago.
Yes, there are some problems with the study but it at least achieves the level of "interesting". There is a pretty strong suggestion that having had SARS-CoV-1 nearly two decades ago still gives an enhanced immune response when challenged with a modern Covid-19 vaccine.
This is not something you can take as definitive proof but it does suggest that there is a long-lasting immunological memory to at least the SARS-CoV-1 virus and this would lend hope to the idea that the same is true for the SARS-CoV-2 virus and vaccines.
This contributes to the argument against Covid-19 boosters in perpetuity.
Hope this link works for anyone who is interested: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...tm_term=012422
There are a few who do not know this, but there was a SARS-Cov-1 outbreak in 2003. It was somewhat contained and sort of disappeared before a vaccine could be developed and so far as I know has not been seen since.
Well, some researchers working with Covid vaccines decided to do a kind of nice little study. The idea was to see what kind of antibody response they might get if they gave the new vaccine to people who had the SARS-CoV-1 infection nearly two decades ago.
Yes, there are some problems with the study but it at least achieves the level of "interesting". There is a pretty strong suggestion that having had SARS-CoV-1 nearly two decades ago still gives an enhanced immune response when challenged with a modern Covid-19 vaccine.
This is not something you can take as definitive proof but it does suggest that there is a long-lasting immunological memory to at least the SARS-CoV-1 virus and this would lend hope to the idea that the same is true for the SARS-CoV-2 virus and vaccines.
This contributes to the argument against Covid-19 boosters in perpetuity.
Hope this link works for anyone who is interested: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...tm_term=012422
