Remarkable Age Distribution of OC43 vs. SARS-CoV-2 in China

JUST A REMINDER

Recent news is that immunologists are discovering SARS-CoV-2 reactive T cells in patients never exposed to the virus, while noting that nearly everyone is exposed to upper respiratory coronaviruses in childhood.

On Feb 17 in this thread, I said the following:

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One hypothesis for the marked age distribution of SARS-CoV-2 could be that the younger infant and pediatric age group is resistant to SARS-CoV-2 due to annual exposure to other coronaviruses sharing much S2 sequence…

Public blogpost, five and one half months ago. In terms of the pandemic, an eternity ago.

Bill Gallaher