Of all the moronic takes during COVID-19, the "T-cell response means it's not dangerous" has to be one of the worst
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Sure, some people might not get severe disease BUT WE ALREADY KNEW THAT We also know that, despite any T-cell cross reactivity, COVID-19 is seriously dangerous to A LOT OF PEOPLE
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And the whole argument about how this impacts R0 is SO DUMB Think about it - we OBSERVED an R0 of 2.5-3 If 20-50% of the population is immune, that would actually push the R0 up MUCH HIGHER
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With an OBSERVED R0 of 3, and 50% of the population immune at the outset, the 'true' R0 would be above 6 which pushes the herd immunity threshold up waaaaay higher
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All of this boils down to the same fact: if the pandemic has been this bad despite 20-50% of people being immune then the immunity clearly doesn't make much difference to the population health challenges posed by COVID-19
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