Immunity
Surprising find: Same-arm vaccine shots enhance immunity
Antibodies from same-arm vaccinations showed increased effectiveness against variants.
Watered-down Immunity Bill proposal would still put MKs above the law, legal advisor warns
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Will a coronavirus vaccine be a ‘cure’ for the pandemic?
The answer to this is more complicated than one might think and centers around the question of the strength and longevity of the immune response.
Some uninfected, unexposed patients may be resistant to COVID-19
Even more surprising is the fact that this was also seen in blood samples taken years before the coronavirus pandemic even began, meaning some people have pre-existing resistance against the virus.
Israeli doctor reinfected with coronavirus 3 months after recovering
This is the second case at Sheba Medical Center in which a patient recovered from the virus and was subsequently reinfected.
Doctors attack the Health Ministry's coronavirus combating policy
As an alternative, the group of doctors offered to keep the older population safer and to allow more freedom to Israel's youth.
Swiftly waning COVID-19 immunity poses vaccination challenge
There is no data from any human trials showing whether any protective antibody immune response would be strong- and long-lasting enough.
Could Brooklyn’s Hasidic Jews have herd immunity?
“That’s the feeling, that they’ve had it, everybody they know has had it, and the people they know who haven’t had it have some kind of immunity that we just don’t understand yet.”
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Monkeys develop short-term immunity to coronavirus, Chinese study finds
The experiment took place at the Peking Union Medical College in Beijing and used rhesus macaques as test subjects, as they are relatively similar to humans.
Coronavirus: Antibodies don't indicate immunity
“Antibodies don’t mean you have immunity. [A test] doesn’t say if you have enough of the right number of antibodies or how long they live."
Bnei Brak could be Israel’s first ‘herd immunity’ model
Recent criticism of Bnei Brak for high infection numbers might actually come to their benefit, as they will be the first to develop "herd immunity"