{"id":2476,"date":"2020-04-18T19:33:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T12:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illume-emag.com\/?p=2476"},"modified":"2020-04-18T19:33:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T12:33:32","slug":"unsure-antibodies-protect-covid-little-sign-herd-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/unsure-antibodies-protect-covid-little-sign-herd-immunity\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO unsure antibodies protect against COVID, little sign of herd immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>GENEVA \u2014 The World Health Organization is not sure whether the presence of antibodies in blood gives full protection against reinfection with the new coronavirus, Mike Ryan, the WHO\u2019s top emergencies expert, told a briefing on Friday.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2477\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2477\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2477 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/lavyon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/r-152-1587177141-1024x722.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"491\" title=\"\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A logo is pictured on the headquarters of the World Health Organization (WHO) ahead of a meeting of the Emergency Committee on the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in Geneva, Switzerland, January 30, 2020. Photo: Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ryan also said that even if antibodies were effective there was little sign that large numbers of people had developed them and were beginning to offer so-called &#8220;herd immunity&#8221;\u00a0to the broader population.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;A lot of preliminary information coming to us right now would suggest quite a low percentage of population have seroconverted [to produce antibodies],&#8221;\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The expectation that &#8230; the majority in society may have developed antibodies, the general evidence is pointing against that, so it may not solve the problem of governments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Source: tuoitrenews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA \u2014 The World Health Organization is not sure whether the presence of antibodies in blood gives full protection against reinfection with the new coronavirus, Mike Ryan, the WHO\u2019s top emergencies expert, told a briefing on Friday.\u00a0 Ryan also said that even if antibodies were effective there was little sign that large numbers of people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2477,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,761],"tags":[1087,1123],"class_list":{"0":"post-2476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"category-celebrity-buzz","9":"tag-coronavirus","10":"tag-covid-19"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavyon.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}