If WHO says there may not be immunity from being infected, doesn't that mean a vaccine won't work? [View all]

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The World Health Organization is warning that people who have had Covid-19 are not necessarily immune by the presence of antibodies from getting the virus again.

"There is no evidence yet that people who have had Covid-19 will not get a second infection," WHO said in a scientific brief published Friday. . . .

Dr. Mary Hayden, spokesperson for [the Infectious Diseases Society of America] and chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Rush University Medical Center, said, "We do not know whether or not patients who have these antibodies are still at risk of reinfection with Covid-19. At this point, I think we have to assume that they could be at risk of reinfection."

"We don't know even if the antibodies are protective, what degree of protection they provide, so it could be complete, it could be partial, or how long the antibodies last," Hayden added, "We know that antibody responses wane over time."

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/25/us/who-immunity-antibodies-covid-19/index.html


But remember, vaccines work by tricking the body into thinking that it's contracted the disease and, thus, causing the body to make antibodies against it.

If antibodies aren't protective, then it doesn't matter if they come from having actually had COVID or from a COVID vaccine.

Food for thought.