Re: Info on T Cell / COVID business
Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2020 5:59 pm
JasonB wrote:ponyte wrote:JasonB wrote:Doesn't help with immunity. Could potentially help with the severity. But it isn't a reason why the "herd immunity" rate would lower.
On a side note, new study in peer review is showing that wearing mask not only limits exposure, but when even when you do get infected, it reduces the amount of virus taken into the body limits the severity of the virus.
In short, there is a correlation between the amount of mask wearing and lower death rates/severe infection rates. They are trying to prove some level of causation.
One assumes the reference is to the PNAS published study. Here is the link to the study so one can read it for oneself.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32527856/
And here is a rebuttal outlining what a pile of steaming manure the study is and why it's a steaming pile of manure
https://ncrc.jhsph.edu/research/identif ... -covid-19/
This letter to the editor of PNAS has some highlights why the 'study' has flaws which might be of interest.
https://metrics.stanford.edu/sites/g/fi ... 820_v3.pdf
And I'm sure the usually person attacks about how I'm ignorant, a denier, some (fill in the blank)ist.
Call me all the names you want. Name calling is the only consistent thing left on this board.
No, this:
https://www.foxnews.com/health/coronavi ... -use-study
The link to the study is in the article, but I thought it would be amusing to post a fox news article based on the response above.
It is very new, no peer review yet, so I don't think any contradictory studies have been illustrated. Again, there is a correlation, the question is whether there is causation.
Read it. Note the first words in the upper right corner of the article is "perspective'. Its not a study, its an opinion piece. No methodology, no data, no conclusion. This is just opinion. Some wold consider it an interesting theory with no scientific method to support it. There is no peer review cause one doesn't peer review opinion.
The real question is how much faith does one put in opinion without facts? One use to call trust in opinion without facts superstition. What dose one call superstition now?