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   Health and Tips31 Jul

Collective immunity to coronavirus is almost here

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   Some population groups may already be close to achieving “crowd
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   Some population groups may already be close to achieving “crowd
   immunity”, despite more or less strict social distancing measures.

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   An international group of scientists suggested that the herd immunity
   threshold (HIT) in the new coronavirus may be much lower, not 60-70%,
   but 10-20% of immune people, and perhaps even less. The fact is that
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   populations need fewer cases to achieve HIT than is suggested by models
   that do not fully account for variation.
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   Scientists believe that the main reason for the different sensitivity
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   cold suffered in the past due to other “harmless” coronaviruses or flu.

   That is, many people already have cross-reactive immunity of varying
   strength to the new pathogen. In other words, many of us can fight
   COVID-19 in one way or another. Since such antibodies are not specific
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   COVID-19 in one way or another. Since such antibodies are not specific
   for SARS-CoV-2, and T cells are difficult to detect at all, these
   components of immunity are usually not detected by current tests for
   immunity to the new coronavirus, scientists write.

   They note that despite the weakening of various quarantine measures, in