{"id":8130,"date":"2020-06-18T09:46:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T15:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8130"},"modified":"2020-06-18T09:46:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T15:46:02","slug":"covid-19-the-t-cell-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=8130","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: The T Cell Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/berthub.eu\/articles\/posts\/covid-19-t-cells\/\">berthub.eu<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; caret-color: rgb(55, 71, 79); color: rgb(55, 71, 79); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, \"Segoe UI\", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, \"Open Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">\n<blockquote><p>When COVID-19 burst on to the scene, tests quickly showed that the everyone was susceptible &#8211; no pre-existing antibodies were found that bound to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This led to dire predictions that over 80% of the population might eventually fall ill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; caret-color: rgb(55, 71, 79); color: rgb(55, 71, 79); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, \"Segoe UI\", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, \"Open Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">\n<blockquote><p>Now more than six months in, this has not happened, and it does not appear to be close to happening. A few months ago, noted virologist Christian Drosten<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndr.de\/nachrichten\/info\/podcast4684.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out; border-bottom-width: 0.125em; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: rgb(189, 189, 189)\">mused in his (German) podcast<\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>that some people<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndr.de\/nachrichten\/info\/35-Vielversprechende-Impfstudie-aus-China,audio672516.html\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"box-sizing: inherit; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(33, 33, 33); text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.1s ease-in-out; border-bottom-width: 0.125em; border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-color: rgb(189, 189, 189)\">might have a level of immunity after all<\/a>, but he wasn\u2019t yet sure. Turns out he may have been right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; caret-color: rgb(55, 71, 79); color: rgb(55, 71, 79); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, \"Segoe UI\", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, \"Open Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">\n<blockquote><p>In this post, I hope to cast some light on:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul style=\"box-sizing: inherit; padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 1.5em; caret-color: rgb(55, 71, 79); color: rgb(55, 71, 79); font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, \"Segoe UI\", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, \"Open Sans\", \"Helvetica Neue\", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none\">\n<li style=\"box-sizing: inherit\">\n<blockquote><p>The slightly mysterious slowing down of the COVID-19 epidemic<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: inherit\">\n<blockquote><p>The several layers of our immune system<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: inherit\">\n<blockquote><p>Cell Mediated Immunity \/ T cells<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: inherit\">\n<blockquote><p>How around 50% of us appear to have (some?) Cell Mediated Immunity against COVID-19<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: inherit\">\n<blockquote><p>What this might mean (spoiler: not sure)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>berthub.eu: When COVID-19 burst on to the scene, tests quickly showed that the everyone was susceptible &#8211; no pre-existing antibodies were found that bound to the SARS-CoV-2 virus. This led to dire predictions that over 80% of the population might eventually fall ill. Now more than six months in, this has not happened, and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8130"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8131,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8130\/revisions\/8131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}