Vastly Under-Counting Population Immunity with SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Tests
Channel: Hyper Wellbeing
Date: 2020-07-17

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Many "experts" featured on CNN/MSNBC and in NYT articles, only focus upon SARS-CoV-2 specific antibody immunity. But the immunologic picture is much more complex than that.

Here is a 2 minute video [1] to help with understanding that SARS-CoV-2 specific antibody immunity is just a fraction of the picture. Please let the "experts" know!

If experts and science writers mistakenly focus only on SARS-CoV2 specific antibody immunity (and associated testing for it, known as 'serological'), it has huge detrimental downstream consequences. For example you'll believe that the Herd Immunity Threshold (HIT) must be factors higher than in reality, e.g. ~60% of population must be exposed not ~20%.

Testing is not being done for basic immunity (also known as cross-reactivity or cross-immunity). And it's not feasible to do T-cell immunity testing.

Knut Wittkowski said during an interview [1] that in New York City has already reached HIT, owing to cross-immunity is ~25%, T-cell immunity ~25%, and SARS-CoV2 specific ABs ~25%.

According to Wittkowski, Hubei, South Korea, much of Europe, the Northeast of the US, already have herd immunity because of the more complete immunologic picture. Other regions may need a month or two.
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Video was snipped from a 1 hour 16 minute show featuring Ivor Cummins (host) and Creon Levit (guest). Please watch for full details [2].

1) https://podcast.hyperwellbeing.com/episode/016-knut-wittkowski-coronavirus-lockdowns-were-a-mistake/

2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IY4M0kp8xM