“American medics officially registered their first Covid-19 patient on January 19, 2020, but the findings in a paper published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases suggest the virus may have been circulating in the US prior to that.”
“The researchers studied almost 7,400 blood donations made in nine US states between December 13, 2019 and January 17, 2020. Evidence of Covid-19 bodies antibodies, the presence of which suggest a person had contact with the virus, were present in 106 of those samples, according to the study.”
“This means coronavirus could have been in the US a month before it saw its first confirmed case, and weeks before the Chinese authorities announced the infection in the city of Wuhan.”
If you had it in January I don’t think you’d be able to tell through an antibody year. Don’t take my word for it because im not sure but I thought they went away after 7-8 months
Shit I hope you're wrong because wouldn't that make a vaccine a lot less effective?
Yep sadly
no, your body keeps "memory cells" to be able to quickly produce antibodies again if necessary, you can still be protected even without currently active antibodies
Ah ok thanks for the clarification!
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