I’m listening to it now myself but I thought his episode with Joe Rogan was good enough to recommend this first.
An early highlight:
11:30 – Osterholm states that “there probably is durable immunity, at least for the short-term” and mentions a recent study on macaque monkeys that demonstrated short-term immunity – one (1) month (or one month after recovery?) – for monkeys that recovered from COVID-19 after deliberate infection by the researchers. None showed symptoms after being “re-challenged”. The researchers reported that (all of?) the monkeys were IgM negative, PCR negative, and that “they did cultures too”. Immunity might not last years but some immunity is (weak) evidence of longer-term immunity generally.
I’m listening to it now myself but I thought his episode with Joe Rogan was good enough to recommend this first.
An early highlight:
11:30 – Osterholm states that “there probably is durable immunity, at least for the short-term” and mentions a recent study on macaque monkeys that demonstrated short-term immunity – one (1) month (or one month after recovery?) – for monkeys that recovered from COVID-19 after deliberate infection by the researchers. None showed symptoms after being “re-challenged”. The researchers reported that (all of?) the monkeys were IgM negative, PCR negative, and that “they did cultures too”. Immunity might not last years but some immunity is (weak) evidence of longer-term immunity generally.