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Originally Posted by Gulfcoast
I'm kind of thinking that by the time that I qualify for the vaccination there won't be much of a need to get it. The under 60 crowd who aren't at high risk have likely been exposed to the virus all year, many have gotten it and already have natural immunity. We've just about got to be reaching herd immunity thresholds here soon.
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There is a percentage of the population that has a robust t-cell response to exposure. I read a few technical articles a while back about it. The idea was that exposure to certain corona viruses that present as colds get stuffed into memory tcells also can trigger a response to sars-cov2. I am not sure if there has been any follow up on the idea. It would certainly be interesting if there are less common alpha or beta corona viruses that also share enough motifs, like PRRA(a furin cleavage point unique to Sars-cov2) to trigger a robust immune response.
As for me, I've done a handful of flights this year, I do all the shopping, I work and interact with around 50 people almost every day. I've had people all around me get Covid. I may have had it in early March last year, well before you could get testing easily.
I give some credit to my daily Vitamin D and Zinc with Quercetin as the Ionophore I've been taking since Feb 2020. My doctor has me on IVM prophlaxis for a couple months now since the NIH updated their guidance in January. I've not so much as had the sniffles in over a year.