Wow... just wow.
Anne and her family have now caught COVID 14 times. Here's the latest adviceSome people in Australia have now had COVID-19 three or more times each. With cases set to rise during Australia's winter and booster rates dropping off, here's the latest advice. Quote:Anne Fletcher and her family have come down with COVID-19 a total of 14 times between them.
“I've had it three times confirmed, my husband's had it four, I have two children who had it three times each, and a baby who's had it once confirmed,” she said.
Quote:Professor Stuart Tangye is a faculty and lab head at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, and a conjoint professor with the Faculty of Medicine and Health at UNSW.
He said it’s hard to pin down exactly why some people seem more susceptible to COVID-19, but there are some clues.
According to Professor Tangye, people who lack B cells which produce antibodies, for example, didn't necessarily suffer from severe COVID-19, but they had prolonged infections and often experienced recurrent infection more frequently.
"Basically what that told us was, antibodies were really important," he said.
"They weren't directly necessary to give you that early protection against infection. Your T cells probably did a very good job of that. But the antibodies were really important for maintaining protection, controlling the viral infection and giving you that longer tail of protection."
Here's another clue: How about our governments do their job for once and tell people just how dangerous it is to be constantly infected with a Level 3 Biohazard virus and start reinstating
protections like mandatory masks in all healthcare settings for starters?
And... again... should anyone be surprised that vaccination rates have dropped off when the messaging from our governments has been "everything's back to normal like it's 2019 again... off you all go back to work and shopping and spending"?
No wonder they're starting to 'hide' the weekly Covid deaths, starting with Queensland a couple of weeks back, and the rest of Australia will soon follow no doubt.
Our current crop of useless pollies had better hope they're long gone by the time the majority of the population finally wake up to the fact that their health (and in a lot of cases, lives) have been - and are still being - sacrificed for the economy.