A rundown of all the good and bad news that’s come our way regarding coronavirus
For better or worse? Photo: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Bloomberg via Getty Images These days, studies heralding some hopeful — or horrifying — new finding about the coronavirus are multiplying nearly as fast as the bug itself.
But the other problem was epidemiological: The road to herd immunity turned out to be much longer and deadlier than policy-makers had hoped. By late April — with hundreds of Swedes already dead due to the coronavirus — serological testing found a mere 7.3 percent of Stockholm residents possessed COVID-19 antibodies.
Taken together, this research raises the possibility that the serological tests we’ve been using to gauge our progress toward herd immunity substantially underestimate the invulnerable percentage of the public. It is worth emphasizing that this is far from certain. The research cited here is preliminary. And even if all of its findings prove valid, they still wouldn’t establish that contracting COVID-19 confers long-term immunity to the disease .
A separate study from Switzerland suggests small children are especially resistant to infection. Researchers ran serological tests on 123 children between the ages of 5 and 9 — including 21 kids who lived with someone who’d been infected by COVID-19 — and found that only one child possessed antibodies indicating a prior SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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