> But cellular immune responses are longer lasting — and as Jennifer Gommerman, an immunologist at the University of Toronto in Canada, explains: “Cellular immunity is what’s going to protect you from disease.” Memory B cells, which can rapidly deploy more antibodies in the event of re-exposure to the virus, tend to stick around, and so do T cells, which can attack already-infected cells. Both provide an added measure of protection should SARS-CoV-2 sneak past the body’s first line of defence.<p>So clickbait. Also fearmongering from politicians and others.
Friendly reminder that the purpose of the vaccines was to reduce death and severe disease, which all of the approved vaccines continue to do, even as “immunity from infection” wanes.
As someone who was happy to get the vaccine (and would do it again if necessary), I find it eerie that there's basically no discussion anywhere in the mainstream about how any of this affects the bottom lines of vaccine producers. Why would they NOT want to develop a product that produces a neverending revenue stream?
Is Covid-19 unique to other respiratory infections causing a severe cytokine storm which causes severe lung damage in some people before the immune system can figure out the correct antibody ???.