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b_b  ·  1193 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: More EU nations ban travel from UK, fearing virus variant

But be careful how you read things. Escaping a mAb treatment isn't the same as escaping a vaccine. Your body doesn't produce mAb's. It produces a mutifactorial response that involves IgM and IgG, probably with Ab's against multiple epitopes for any given antigen. Escaping a lab-made mAb presents a much lower bar than adaptive immunity. Again, you may not be wrong, but there are a lot of reasons not to despair.





mk  ·  1193 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, thanks. I guess part of me is mentally preparing for the worst. I want 2021 to be a post-quarantine post-Trump world too much.

b_b  ·  1193 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wise, frankly.