Monday, April 20, 2020 – 4:35 PM
I Photo: Photonews I. Source: Breakthrough I by Editorial
Those who have already contracted the coronavirus can also get it a second time, according to research. So getting infected with the virus is no guarantee of immunity. This also has consequences for group immunity.
“Group immunity is what happens when a number of people in a group have immunity against an infectious disease,” explains doctor and researcher Heidi Theeten to Breakthrough. “If the self-built immunity is strong enough to defuse the germ, the result is that that germ, that wants to spread deathly, keeps bumping into a wall. Then it cannot be transferred to other people. “
“The percentage of people who need enough antibodies in their body to provide adequate protection for the entire population varies by virus depending on their level of infection,” it says.
Broad production over a year and a half
According to Theeten, at least 65% of the population should have antibodies against the coronavirus, but we can only achieve this number through vaccination, and that is precisely what we will have to wait for.
“Normally, the development of a vaccine takes an average of five years, but now I expect with all efforts that in a year or a year and a half we will be ready with a widely produced vaccine”, she concludes.
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