Singapore Scientsts Find Widespread T-Cell Immunity

DukeNUS Medical School ^

[hawkaw]

Thank you for posting this article. This seems very important research. It’s to bad media is ignoring this research.

[norcal joe]

note the suffix -19 There are at least 18 other covids and we don-t know how many with 20+ suffixes.

Uh no. The 19 comes from the fact that it was first identified in Dec. 2019. It was initially called the 2019 Coronavirus, but changed to COVID-19 (for COrona VIrus Disease 2019) for various reasons.

[DEPcom]

“”Does the “T” in “T-cells” stand for Trump?” lol

[mbs6]

To me, it’s a reasonable hypothesis. To my understanding, diseases are really only eradicated in a few ways: 1) herd immunity is achieved, or 2) a vaccine is found, or 3) the disease mutates into a less virulent form. Of those three, which is most likely to be protecting the homeless?

There’s a reason why societies have adopted, what up until CV19, were the standard, accepted practices for dealing with disease. Most viruses are going to run their course and there’s only so much we can do to alter that course. Our time-honored, standard practices are a good balance between risk mitigation and continuing to live productive lives. Now, we’ve made risk mitigation nearly the only factor in our decision making.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Related...

Another reason vitamin D is important: It gets T cells going
By Katherine Harmon
March 7, 2010
Scientific American Blog

Vitamin D deficiency has been linked to a rapidly expanding inventory of ailments—including heart disease, cancer and the common cold. A new discovery demonstrates how the vitamin plays a major role in keeping the body healthy in the first place, by allowing the immune system's T cells to start doing their jobs.

In order for T cells to become active members of the body's immune system, they must transition from so-called "naive" T cells into either killer cells or helper cells (which are charged with "remembering" specific invaders). And, if ample vitamin D is not around, the T cells do not make that crucial transition, a group of researchers led by Carsten Geisler, head of the Department of International Health, Immunology and Microbiology at the University of Copenhagen, found. They draw this conclusion based on their experiments with isolated naïve human T cells.

"When a T cell is exposed to a foreign pathogen, it extends a signaling device of 'antenna' known as a vitamin D receptor, with which it searches for vitamin D," Geisler said in a prepared statement. If there is an inadequate vitamin D level, he noted, "they won't even begin to mobilize."

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Most viruses are going to run their course and there’s only so much we can do to alter that course.

Very true...unless our president just happens to be Donald J. Trump in which case he should have stopped this in its tracks.

[wastedyears]

The word has gone mad in our insane overreaction.

It was always about the election.

[pepsi_junkie]

Also hand washing and general cleanliness of surgical aparatus traces to a Hungarian physician working in a maternity ward at a hospital in Vienna in the 1840s. He noticed that women who had their babies delivered by male doctors often got infections and died. Women who had their babies delivered by female midwives generally didn't. He further noted that the doctors often worked on other patients and even dissected cadavers prior to doing a child delivery and they never washed their hands, the midwives didn't treat sick people or corpses. He postulated that the doctors were somehow carrying illness from other patients on their hands and ordered them to wash. Death rates in the ward went from something like 18% to below 1%.

And still doctors refused to do it for a long time and rejected his findings. He ended up committed to a mental hospital and died in his 40s. But eventually the medical community caught on.

[JCL3]

Chris Martenson at Peak Prosperity had this in one of his virus videos last Friday. That study mentioned previous exposure to SARS, MERS, and 4 different versions of the common cold(coronaviruses) developed T-cells that recognized the first two sections of the virus.
https://www.peakprosperity.com/your-t-cells-determine-your-covid-19-risk/

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Wow, that is an amazing story. Thanks for posting that. I never knew the history of simple hygiene in medicine.

[GOPJ]

Interesting...

Here’s one you might have missed:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus-drugs-treatments.html