During my interview with Tony Fauci yesterday, I asked him about Scott Atlas's @SWAtlasHoover attempted takedown of @CDCDirector Redfield re how many Americans are still susceptible to #COVID19. Here's my question. /1
Full interview: instagram.com/tv/CFlEMt8Kg2B…
Here's Fauci's answer. "I thought it was extraordinarily inappropriate for [Atlas], in a press conference like that, to contradict the director of CDC... " /2
Needless to say, beyond those already previously infected, we have no evidence of widespread immunity via cross-immunity or CD4 cells. Atlas doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about. A neuroradiologist shouldn't pretend he's an immunologist. /end
instagram.com/tv/CFlEMt8Kg2B…
Here are some of the papers Fauci was referring to. On T-cell cross-immunity to common cold viruses, in JCI, “Healthy donor T-cell responses to common cold coronaviruses and SARS-CoV-2” /1
jci.org/articles/view/…
And this one in Nature Reviews Immunology by Sette & Crotty, “Pre-existing immunity to SARS-CoV-2: the knowns and unknowns” /2
nature.com/articles/s4157…
And this one on pre-existing humoral immunity in the Journal of Infectious Diseases:
“No SARS-CoV-2 neutralization by intravenous immunoglobulins produced from plasma collected before the 2020 pandemic” /end
academic.oup.com/jid/advance-ar…
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