Posted by (+18492) 3 years ago
During chats with my mother over our current of affairs, she discussed reading a National Geographic article that said that scientists found 1918-19 Spanish Flu survivors(1) retained the same antibody immunities nearly a century later.
My mother expressed the thought that maybe those descendants from those survivors might possibly carry those antibodies, and might possibly be the carriers of the COVID-19 virus, walking around with the sniffles or nothing at all? I thought that may be a little far fetched, but then looked online and saw while Montana was the 4th worst hit per capita on terms of 1918 flu deaths, 2020 Montana is one of the top states to ready to reopen due its low and declining infection rate.
So what do you think? While this does not help us with our current condition, I think this should be looked at. Maybe it is true, antibiotics could be further developed.
And yes I know the difference between the influenza and corona family of viruses.
(Ducking, waiting for a medical professional to tell me to stick to engineering).
1. Note to my slow-witted Trump-loving friends. "Survivor" refers to those who got infected with the virus and recovered to live. Not those who lived in the middle of nowhere in 1919 and never got sick. I am sorry I have to spell it out like this in detail, but you know, FOX News and all.
My mother expressed the thought that maybe those descendants from those survivors might possibly carry those antibodies, and might possibly be the carriers of the COVID-19 virus, walking around with the sniffles or nothing at all? I thought that may be a little far fetched, but then looked online and saw while Montana was the 4th worst hit per capita on terms of 1918 flu deaths, 2020 Montana is one of the top states to ready to reopen due its low and declining infection rate.
So what do you think? While this does not help us with our current condition, I think this should be looked at. Maybe it is true, antibiotics could be further developed.
And yes I know the difference between the influenza and corona family of viruses.
(Ducking, waiting for a medical professional to tell me to stick to engineering).
1. Note to my slow-witted Trump-loving friends. "Survivor" refers to those who got infected with the virus and recovered to live. Not those who lived in the middle of nowhere in 1919 and never got sick. I am sorry I have to spell it out like this in detail, but you know, FOX News and all.