{"id":324,"date":"2020-04-16T15:24:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T22:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/?p=324"},"modified":"2020-04-16T15:24:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T22:24:14","slug":"opinion-who-is-immune-to-the-coronavirus-the-new-york-times-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/04\/16\/opinion-who-is-immune-to-the-coronavirus-the-new-york-times-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Who Is Immune to the Coronavirus? &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Among the many uncertainties that remain about Covid-19 is how the human immune system responds to infection and what that means for the spread of the disease. <a href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/tag\/immunity\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">#Immunity<\/a> after any infection can range from lifelong and complete to nearly nonexistent. So far, however, only the first glimmers of data are available about immunity to SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>What can scientists, and the decision makers who rely on science to inform policies, do in such a situation? The best approach is to construct a conceptual model \u2014 a set of assumptions about how immunity might work \u2014 based on current knowledge of the immune system and information about related viruses, and then identify how each aspect of that model might be wrong, how one would know and what the implications would be. Next, scientists should set out to work to improve this understanding with observation and experiment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/04\/13\/opinion\/coronavirus-immunity.html\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow external noopener noreferrer\" class=\"wpel-icon-left\"><i class=\"wpel-icon dashicons-before dashicons-admin-links\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>Opinion | Who Is Immune to the Coronavirus? &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many uncertainties that remain about Covid-19 is how the human immune system responds to infection and what that means for the spread of the disease. #Immunity after any infection can range from lifelong and complete to nearly nonexistent. So far, however, only the first glimmers of data are available about immunity to SARS-CoV-2, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/2020\/04\/16\/opinion-who-is-immune-to-the-coronavirus-the-new-york-times-2\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[90],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notordinary.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}