These results are headed in the same direction as Stockholm’s.
The numbers are much much lower than expected. Herd immunity is just not going to happen with this number profile, even if the measurements were early. NY was already killing 8-900 people per day in this time frame.
The most recent study on antibody longevity says, essentially, 2 months. And that is why Stockholm is so low and why we’ll see the same here. The antibodies disappear. They are not immortal. They die and the body disposes. The Memory B cells apparently don’t produce more after 2 months.
Less than a week ago, the CDC publicly stated that 5% to 8% of the USA population is - or has been - infected with COVID-19.
The confirmed infection rate for USA 35.5 million PCR tests - spread across four months - is 8.1%.
To my eye, the USA and Europe all look like they are in the 10% to 15% total population infection rate.
Hopefully, SARS 2 will mutate itself out of existence just like SARS 1 did.
Highly effective vaccines for common cold viruses like coronavirus are still decades in the future, if ever.
George Floyd (”I can't breath”) got swabbed in the ER the day he died.
The PCR test found coronavirus DNA in his sample - that was eight weeks after he first tested positive for COVID.
So, his antibodies disappeared, but he still had corona DNA in his mucous?
That's hard to believe.