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Originally Posted by roscoguy
Why am I reminded of another thread...? Oh, yeah:
Science is still involved in assessing the role that T-cells play in combating COVID-19, but you go ahead and do your victory dance. Hopefully nothing will change in the coming weeks or months to spoil the glee at the recent downturn in the number of cases. Even more importantly, I hope that the number of deaths has also peaked. |
When I predicted that Florida's surge of new cases would peak and start falling before end of July I was applying the theory of a Nobel Prize winner. Nobody else was predicting this at the time I did. Doesn't make me an expert, just someone who knows how to follow the science and was willing to go out on a limb when nobody else was. Turns out my prediction was spot on.
As far as T cell coronavirus immunity science goes, nobody on this forum was even talking about it until I started bringing it up. I'd wager that you knew nothing about it till I brought it up. Search for T cell immunity on this forum and you will find a lot of posts by yours truly. T cell immunity from previous exposure to other coronaviruses has confirmation in 4-5 studies now, done in different parts of the world. Pretty convincing evidence. Doesn't really matter anyway, actual data from virus outbreaks all over the world shows that no matter the mitigation efforts, the virus keeps infecting until it reaches a certain percentage of population, then it goes downward. This fact alone says that there is something stopping the virus from full penetration and infection of all. T cell immunity studies are just another confirmation of why this happens.
Of course I am gleeful that cases are trending downward. You would think everyone would be. If cases go down then so will deaths. Cases peaked on July 18 so we should be close to peak of deaths because of lag time in reporting (3-4 weeks) Current highest death day was July 16 with 152 deaths, but that may get surpassed as new certificates come in.