{"id":105589,"date":"2020-04-17T12:02:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T19:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/who-unsure-antibodies-protect-against-covid-little-sign-of-herd-immunity"},"modified":"2020-04-17T12:02:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T19:02:18","slug":"who-unsure-antibodies-protect-against-covid-little-sign-of-herd-immunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/who-unsure-antibodies-protect-against-covid-little-sign-of-herd-immunity","title":{"rendered":"WHO unsure antibodies protect against COVID, little sign of herd immunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/who-unsure-antibodies-protect-against-covid-little-sign-of-herd-immunity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reopening wet food markets must conform to strict standards: WHO.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>GENEVA (Reuters) \u2014 The World Health Organization is not sure whether the presence of antibodies in blood gives full protection against reinfection with the new coronavirus, Mike Ryan, the WHO\u2019s top emergencies expert, told a briefing on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan also said that even if antibodies were effective there was little sign that large numbers of people had developed them and were beginning to offer so-called \u201cherd immunity\u201d to the broader population.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of preliminary information coming to us right now would suggest quite a low percentage of population have seroconverted (to produce antibodies),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reopening wet food markets must conform to strict standards: WHO. GENEVA (Reuters) \u2014 The World Health Organization is not sure whether the presence of antibodies in blood gives full protection against reinfection with the new coronavirus, Mike Ryan, the WHO\u2019s top emergencies expert, told a briefing on Friday. Ryan also said that even if antibodies [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":518,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/518"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}