Originally Posted by
BCR
Ok. So maybe, but you’re not going to know? One of my childhood friends is listed as one of the inventors on the patent for Truvada and all those medications to prevent HIV up to Truvada. It was basically his life’s work at Gilead from early twenties until a few years back. He started his own company in the Bay Area that takes companies through the process now, and he touched upon that stuff with me when I asked him, but it was like you answered. Maybe, but hard to tell, and just get vaccine as we won’t know for a long time was basically his advice.
This was one of my replies to Druff 2 months ago...
"FDA, CDC and WHO are saying either you don't need it now or they don't have enough data.
Pfizer is saying it could be beneficial after 6-12 months.
Antibodies more or less always go down after a short period of time from vaccination/infection.
Often the blueprints to make antibodies are saved for some time and mechanism to trigger production when needed. The latter part is
why you can get infected and be symptomatic while avoiding serious illness.
There's no huge conspiracy."
...blueprints parts is the layman version of memory cells.
My belief is that various agencies are either playing it safe before enough data or they have some preliminary data to support the 3rd dose. There's "lag" in memory cell related immune response. It could be too long or there are other issues.
Some of the worst Covid related health issues are tied to immune system going haywire and causing too much damage when it goes against virus replication. Cytokine storm. It basically shotguns whatever it has against an "unknown" threat. The antibodies make it a "known" threat and response is appropriate.