Quote (SylvesterStallone @ Apr 23 2021 10:23am)
It's hilarious that you didn't even read the headline of your own article.
"FORMER Pfizer VP"
Looking at his arguments they are....
It's ridiculous to think that there is no crossover-immunity with other cornaviruses. As far as I can tell he's basing this on absolutely nothing. There's no evidence of crossover immunity. Unless he has a reference for this, it's unfounded.
That the PCR tests for Covid can come up positive from other coronavirus infections. This might be true if they were using a PCR primer that can cross-over. Again, no evidence of this happening. Primers are specifically designed to be specific to the test. They're not hard to design, but it will depend on the test.
People who have had the common cold should have preexisting immunity from cross-over immunity. This is not supported by anything. As far as I can tell he's making this up out of thin air. He's also saying that they will have "T-cells that help fight the virus even if they don't produce antibodies". This is not particularly relavent. T-cells help ramp-up response, they don't do the fighting or deactivate the virus. So it might help, but likely isn't going to prevent you from getting sick or spreading it. We would need a specific observation to make that conclusion and as fara s I know he isn't referencing one.
He seems to know how things work, but he's making a ton of unfounded assumptions because he is not somebody who's expertise is in epidemiology or infectious disease.
This is actually a great case-study on expertise. When you are looking at an expert's testimony, it is important to understand what their expertise is in and apply that as narrowly as possible. This guy is an expert in respiratory diseases. So when he talks about respiratory disease, he's an expert. However, when he then goes on to talking about T-cells, the immune system, lab testing, and other things, he has left his field of expertise.