{"id":29693,"date":"2020-09-21T20:27:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T10:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29693"},"modified":"2020-09-21T20:27:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T10:27:48","slug":"while-the-latest-research-suggests-that-antibodies-against-covid-19-could-be-lost-in-just-three-months-a-new-hope-has-appeared-on-the-horizon-the-enigmatic-t-cell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29693","title":{"rendered":"While the latest research suggests that antibodies against Covid-19 could be lost in just three months, a new hope has appeared on the horizon: the enigmatic T cell."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"457\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Biology_Researchers-1024x457.jpg\" alt=\"Biology Researchers\" class=\"wp-image-29694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Biology_Researchers-1024x457.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Biology_Researchers-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Biology_Researchers-768x343.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Biology_Researchers-1536x686.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Biology_Researchers.jpg 1845w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Tommy Wells writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article should\u2019ve been entitled: \u201cwe screwed up immunology for the past 7 decades by focusing solely on antibodies, (so we could sell billions of dollars worth of vaccines)  but now we\u2019ve been forced to spill the beans about what constitutes real immunity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then there was this little tidbit: <br>\n\u201c When researchers tested blood samples taken years before the pandemic started, they found T cells which were specifically tailored to detect proteins on the surface of Covid-19.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Errrr\u2026how could that be for a brand new \u201cnovel\u201d virus that was supposedly created in some bats recently??  Yet another little factoid that doesn\u2019t fit in with their little made-up story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunshine, selenium and vitamin C are the answers. Plus some good food choices and exercise. This is what activates and invigorates the T cells and your system as a whole. Give them enough time and science eventually gets caught up with what the \u201calternative\u201d crowd has been saying for the past several decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Tom: This piece of the jigsaw puzzle explains why so many are completely unaffected by COVID-19 and why it hits the older folks harder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have read elsewhere that antibodies are not necessary for the body to mount an effective defense against a pathogen, that people had been observed who did not succumb to other illnesses yet had no antibodies to that pathogen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Considering the whole thrust of a vaccination is to force the body to create antibodies to the pathogen causing the illness against which they seek to protect, this discovery effectively pulls the rug out from underneath that strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It also adds credence to the viewpoint that it is not the pathogen that is the problem, it is the environment of the body &#8211; whether or not the body is in a sufficiently high state of operation that it can easily defeat pathogens.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20200716-the-people-with-hidden-protection-from-covid-19<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Wells writes: This article should\u2019ve been entitled: \u201cwe screwed up immunology for the past 7 decades by focusing solely on antibodies, (so we could sell billions of dollars worth of vaccines) but now we\u2019ve been forced to spill the beans about what constitutes real immunity.\u201d Then there was this little tidbit: \u201c When researchers &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29693\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;While the latest research suggests that antibodies against Covid-19 could be lost in just three months, a new hope has appeared on the horizon: the enigmatic T cell.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29695,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29693\/revisions\/29695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}