President Donald J. Trump has developed antibodies to Covid-19, according to the White House physician, Navy Cmdr. Dr. Sean Conley.
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President Donald J. Trump has developed antibodies to Covid-19, according to the White House physician, Navy Cmdr. Dr. Sean Conley.
'It looks increasingly like T cells might be a secret source of immunity to Covid-19.'
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The BBC reports that some people may be immune to Covid-19 even if they get back a negative antigen test. According to their article from July 19, 2020:”Several studies have shown that people infected with Covid-19 tend to have T cells that can target the virus, regardless of whether they have experienced symptoms. So far, so normal. But scientists have also recently discovered that some people can test negative for antibodies against Covid-19 and positive for T cells that can identify the virus. This has led to suspicions that some level of immunity against the disease might be twice as common as was previously thought.
By TATIANA PROPHET
In California, Latinos are the only group that has experienced both more Covid deaths and more Covid-19 positive cases than their percentage of the population.
Like Hispanics, blacks in California show more deaths relative to their population (9 percent of total Covid deaths), but a lower number of positive cases (4 percent of the total). With Hispanics making up 39 percent of the state’s population, and 45 percent of Covid deaths, the numbers are significant. Blacks are 6 percent of California’s population but show 4 percent of all Covid cases and 9 percent of all deaths. Asian, whites and blacks all tested positive in a proportion that is less than their percentage of the general population (see charts).
California has tested 5 million specimens for Covid-19. During the entire month of June, the state went from above 50,000 tests per day to well over 100,000 tests per day. Yet infection rates and death rates remain flat.
Tests in California more than doubled between June 1 and July 7, from about 2 million to 5 million. And cases roughly tripled. But the death rate remains between 1% and 2%, while the infection rate is relatively flat between 5% and 11%.
