Re: CV and mad panic behaviour
Reply #1947 –
Some vaccines stop you getting symptomatic disease, but others stop you getting infected too. The latter is known as “sterilising immunity”. With sterilising immunity, the virus can't even gain a toehold in the body because the immune system stops the virus entering cells and replicating.
Source: The conversation.com
I understand that most vaccines dont prevent infection but I was speaking in an ideal case...
I'm not a virologist just a simple elec engineer but getting to theme of my comments and thats the Chinese vaccine vs the others and I'm not sure you can return to normal in the big picture with one offering 50% effectiveness and others offering 90-95%.
Would you allow Brazilians, Indonesians, etc who have had the Chinese vaccine into Australia or allow them to travel without normal quarantine procedures?
I agree about infection prevention being the gold standard.
I suspect detection of an immune response will be a test, how you get it makes little difference once you've got it, but how you get it is
important in other respects. Likely this will be the $0.10c per test style drop of blood on an indicator stick test that are currently being developed for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies.
A little known fact and one obviously absent in some debates, particularly for all those promoting herd immunity through ignorance, and absent at those anti-vaxer infection parties, is that viral mutation is accelerated by the human immune system. So letting people get infected as a way of creating herd immunity is downright dangerous, as it increases the number of viral variants in circulation.