> This is a really good article on the immune system.
I still don't particularly like it that much.
None of this should be all that new.
There were plenty of knowledgeable people saying all along that sterilizing nutralizing immunity in the mucosa was unlikely to be achievable for a vaccine against a respiratory virus that most commonly had no viremic phase, particularly as a shot given in the arm.
They were also saying that T-cells were the important thing to prevent disease and death and we shouldn't be focusing on preventing infection.
Some other people who debated or disagreed with that perspective are now suddenly learning novel new things about the immune system. There's a good chunk of experts out there that were saying this all along though (if you were listening to them and not the headlines and blogs and twitter).
I still don't particularly like it that much.
None of this should be all that new.
There were plenty of knowledgeable people saying all along that sterilizing nutralizing immunity in the mucosa was unlikely to be achievable for a vaccine against a respiratory virus that most commonly had no viremic phase, particularly as a shot given in the arm.
They were also saying that T-cells were the important thing to prevent disease and death and we shouldn't be focusing on preventing infection.
Some other people who debated or disagreed with that perspective are now suddenly learning novel new things about the immune system. There's a good chunk of experts out there that were saying this all along though (if you were listening to them and not the headlines and blogs and twitter).