Nu jau ir ieslēguši atpakaļgaitu, kad parādījās šādi komentāri:


Staying on the immunity issue for a moment, the World Health Organisation statement caused such alarm because it was open to the interpretation that people who have recovered from the virus were not immune from reinfection. In fact, while the evidence is still being evaluated, most scientists believe quite the opposite.

Prof Paul Hunter, professor in medicine at the University of East Anglia, said everyone or almost everyone who recovers from Covid-19 “will have developed immunity otherwise they would not have recovered”. “What we do not know is how long that immunity will last. It almost certainly will not last for life,” he said.

Prof Babak Javid, the principal investigator at Tsinghua University School of Medicine in Beijing, said the WHO’s statement was “very confusing”.
Given that the majority of people that have had Covid-19 develop neutralising antibody responses, he said, it is “reasonable to assume that they will develop at least short-term immunity from re-infection – the critical questions are how robust that immunity would be, and for how long it would last.”

The WHO alarmed some in the scientific community when it said, in a briefing note published on Saturday, that “there is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from Covid-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection”.

Experts said the WHO should have said there was “currently insufficient evidence” instead of “no evidence”.

Late last night, the Geneva-based body walked back its statement, saying: “We expect that most people who are infected with #COVID19 will develop an antibody response that will provide some level of protection.” See the WHO’s tweets below:

We expect that most people who are infected with #COVID19 will develop an antibody response that will provide some level of protection.