{"id":2011,"date":"2020-05-19T17:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sajo-innovation.de\/blog\/?p=2011"},"modified":"2020-05-19T17:00:31","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T15:00:31","slug":"immunity-passport-and-its-impact-on-the-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sajo-innovation.de\/blog\/immunity-passport-and-its-impact-on-the-society\/","title":{"rendered":"“immunity passport” and its impact on the society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Presumption: For a while now, there have been suggestions to implement an \u201cimmunity passport\u201d for those who went through COVID-19. The \u201cpassport\u201d maybe applied for once an antibody-test is positive. This is meant to indicate the person had COVID-19 and thus has acquired immunity towards the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a scientific as well as ethical point of view, this idea of an \u201cimmunity passport\u201d is highly problematic. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We are focusing on three major aspects here:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. An antibody-test indicates if a person\u2019s immune system had developed antibodies against SARS-CoV-2. Therefore, it indicates only the fact that this person had had contact with the virus. It does not prove a previous COVID-19 disease. The test does not give any information as to the neutralization quality of the antibodies (\u2018neutralization\u2019 means they prevent a second infection with the same virus). <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    The presence of antibodies does not prove immunity<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Such an immunity would have to be tested by a targeted re-infection, which for good reasons is not feasible in Germany, a democratic country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Remember: An HIV infection does lead to a whole array of antibodies, which do not protect the infected person, since they are not neutralizing antibodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    To-date\nthere is no hint to a long-lasting immunity against coronaviruses after an infection.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Thus,\nthe question would be: How long should this document be valid?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    2) This instrument has the potential to divide our society. It leads to discrimination<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Here are the \u201cimmune\u201d people, there are those who \u201cneed to be careful\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    We do hope, the German Ethical Council will take a close look at this aspect.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    3) Publicly, this could be misunderstood as a call for deliberate SARS-CoV-2 infections. Since many people still think they might go through a mild infection, people might take the risk and get infected on purpose. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This reminds us of the notorious measles parties, where children are being infected with measles virus intentionally. Because of the global death toll of 140,000 children dying of measles infections annually, we think such a measure is beyond reason!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    We are strictly opposing the implementation of such a document because it will provide a false sense of safety, it will divide the society, it will lead to dangerous behavior.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Stay curious and stay alert,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Sabine and Joerg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Meet Sabine at XING: https:\/\/www.xing.com\/profile\/Sabine_Breun<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Visit Joerg at LinkedIn: http:\/\/linkedin.com\/in\/j\u00f6rg-baumann-phd-0710b11a3<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Presumption: For a while now, there have been suggestions to implement an \u201cimmunity passport\u201d for those who went through COVID-19. The \u201cpassport\u201d maybe applied for once an antibody-test is positive. This is meant to indicate the person had COVID-19 and thus has acquired immunity towards the virus. From a scientific as well as ethical point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,112,229,12,11,17,279,37,278,15,16,13,19,18,233,110,234,113,242,241,240,280,40,111],"class_list":["post-2011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein","tag-antivirals","tag-behaviour","tag-broadly-active-antivirals","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-epidemic","tag-ethics","tag-grenzen","tag-immunity-passport","tag-infectious-disease","tag-infektionskrankheiten","tag-influenza","tag-outbreak","tag-pandemic","tag-rd","tag-recommendation","tag-research-development","tag-resonsibility","tag-sabine-joerg","tag-sajo-labs","tag-sajo-production","tag-society","tag-vaccination","tag-virus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sajo-innovation.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sajo-innovation.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sajo-innovation.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sajo-innovation.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sajo-innovation.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.sajo-innovation.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2071,"href":"https:\/\/www.sajo-innovation.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions\/2071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sajo-innovation.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sajo-innovation.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sajo-innovation.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sajo-innovation.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}