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Category Archives: Immunity

Tuesday Update for 2021-01-19: Booking

Suddenly at Home Posted on 2021-01-19 by Keith Dawson2021-01-19

Herewith three items of pandemic news you may have missed recently: Booking a shot in Minnesota; low dead-space syringes; and Norway is investigating the deaths of elderly vaccine recipients. Plus news briefs and a frippery. Norway urges caution before vaccinating … Continue reading →

Posted in Immunity, Vaccinations | 4 Replies

Tuesday Update for 2020-12-15: CureVac

Suddenly at Home Posted on 2020-12-15 by Keith Dawson2020-12-15

Herewith three items of pandemic news you may have missed recently: How wear­able computers could predict Covid-19; the complicated situation with auto­anti­bodies; and the late-stage trial of German company CureVac’s vaccine candidate. Plus the accustomed frippery. CureVac’s candidate enters Phase … Continue reading →

Posted in Immunity, Long Haulers, Phase III, Testing, Vaccines | Leave a reply

Tuesday Update for 2020-11-17

Suddenly at Home Posted on 2020-11-17 by Keith Dawson2020-11-17

Herewith three items of pandemic news you may have missed recently: cyber attacks against vaccine developers worldwide; a comprehensive clinical trials dashboard; and the elusive allure of SARS-CoV-2 sterilizing immunity. Plus the usual frippery. The promise of sterilizing immunity We … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Update for 2020-10-27

Suddenly at Home Posted on 2020-10-27 by Keith Dawson2020-11-10

Herewith three items of pandemic news you may have missed recently: a list of 50 voices you can trust; doubts that an EUA might be issued anytime soon; and more questions on how long immunity lasts. Plus the accustomed frippery. … Continue reading →

Posted in Immunity, Vaccines | 1 Reply

Tuesday Update for 2020-10-20

Suddenly at Home Posted on 2020-10-20 by Keith Dawson2020-10-20

The Update has gone semi-weekly. Herewith three more items of pandemic news you may have missed recently: the next pandemic; the duration of immunity; and two new metrics that may portend severe Covid-19. Plus a frippery. Two New Metrics That … Continue reading →

Posted in Immunity, Medical Studies, Public Health | Leave a reply

Reinfection Redux

Suddenly at Home Posted on 2020-10-14 by Keith Dawson2020-10-15

Repeat infections with Covid-19 are back in the news: a Nevada man’s case was published in The Lancet, and an elderly, immune-compromised woman in the Netherlands died after a second infection. Still, there is little cause to worry. We touched … Continue reading →

Posted in Immunity, Reinfection | 3 Replies

Immunity and Neanderthals

Suddenly at Home Posted on 2020-09-30 by Keith Dawson2020-09-30

We’re going to be stringing together Covid-19 and the immune system’s response to it with genes we inherited from Neanderthals. Bear with us. First, let’s look at a paper outlining a genetic defect that results in sub-par pro­duc­tion of one … Continue reading →

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Protection from What?

Suddenly at Home Posted on 2020-09-13 by Keith Dawson2020-11-17

Those of us who have been hoping that life can go back to some kind of normal after a vaccine is available may need to reset our expectations. The vaccines under development will protect against disease, not against infection. What … Continue reading →

Posted in Hope, Immunity, Vaccines | 1 Reply

Reinfection

Suddenly at Home Posted on 2020-07-13 by Keith Dawson2020-10-14

We still don’t know for sure whether you can catch Covid-19 twice. Four recent accounts of what might be cases of reinfection suggest that our future with the virus could be very different than what we have been hoping. Scattered … Continue reading →

Posted in Immunity, Reinfection | 4 Replies

The Asymptomatic

Suddenly at Home Posted on 2020-06-21 by Keith Dawson2020-07-03

Mystery surrounds those who get infected by SARS-CoV-2 but never develop any symp­toms. How common are they in the population? Can they infect others? For how long? Do they develop immunity? Answers are starting to emerge. Early in February, Chinese … Continue reading →

Posted in Immunity, Medical Studies | 1 Reply

Does Recovering Confer Immunity?

Suddenly at Home Posted on 2020-05-24 by Keith Dawson2020-05-24

This open question has huge bearing on how soon we can reopen the economy, what the course of this disease could be beyond the first wave, how successful an eventual vaccine might be, and how we should treat those who … Continue reading →

Posted in Immunity, Medical Studies | 1 Reply

Shunning

Suddenly at Home Posted on 2020-05-22 by Keith Dawson2020-05-24

This one took me completely by surprise. People who have not had the SARS-CoV-2 virus are rejecting, ostracizing, stigmatizing, and shunning those who have recovered from it. Read any of the press accounts listed below and you will appreciate the … Continue reading →

Posted in Immunity, Psychology, Shunning | 4 Replies

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