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Why Covid is still flooring some people

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Scientists say people’s antibody levels against Covid are probably as low now as they have been…

“Now, because antibodies are lower, a higher dose [of the virus] is getting through and causing a more severe bout of disease,” Prof Riley says.

Antibody levels are relatively low because it has been a long time since many of us were vaccinated (if you are young and healthy you were only ever offered two doses and a booster) or infected, which also tops up immunity.

Prof Peter Openshaw, from Imperial College London, told me: “The thing that made the huge difference before was the very wide and fast rollout of vaccines – even young adults managed to get vaccinated, and that made an absolutely huge difference.”

 

Source: Why Covid is still flooring some people

Trump tells rally immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ | Donald Trump | The Guardian

(Me: Same white supremacist rhetoric used is past decades against Irish Catholics, Italians, Polish, Hungarians, Russians, Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese… pure “racism” and hate speech)

Source: Trump tells rally immigrants are ‘poisoning the blood of our country’ | Donald Trump | The Guardian