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Longitudinal analysis shows durable immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection

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Re: Longitudinal analysis shows durable immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection

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I have proof of infection from several tests. I’m starting to wonder why I can just use that instead of vaccine evidence?

You have evidence of infection from several tests, they could still be false positives. Even ignoring that I t’s really difficult to have a policy around this because of how limited and error prone testing was early on. Many people where told they had covid based on symptoms or a single low accuracy test. Things have improved, but when you start talking millions of people being tested it’s really just a question of t…

How common are false positives? I had multiple different tests from different locations. Slow and fast tests. My tests were not early on either.

I’d rather trust that than my neighbor’s paper vaccine card which can be easily faked

Re: Longitudinal analysis shows durable immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection

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Not really the anti-body count decays more quickly compared to that of a natural infection and does so dramatically especially for older people: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... . This is the underlying reason that there is talk of boosters.

It is normal for antibodies to decline after an immune response, it doesn't mean the immunity is gone, the immune system remembers how to produce them when needed. The paper you link actually says that the memory B-cell populations appear to be maintained after the waning of the antibodies. B-cells are the cells that remembers and creates antibodies in response to an antigen (like the spike protein on the surface of…

The dangers of software engineers assuming the role of immunologists. Thanks for bringing clarity to this subthread.
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