Norman Swan
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10,274 appearances
109 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2020
last heard 11 Aug
Norman Swan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I think you feel the wrong thing, Tegan.
My memory is very different.
I remember that people were saying there probably was a seasonal effect, but you couldn't see it in all the noise and strength of the pandemic.
The pandemic was so strong.
it was masking a seasonal effect underneath.
And then what they thought was as the pandemic turned into an epidemic and the virus became endemic, in other words, steady in the community and keeping on recurring, then you would see the effect of seasonality, which might mean then you'd see a surge as the weather gets colder.
Do you?
Yeah.
But no doubt, Coronacast listeners who've got a much better memory than either you or me will fix this up.
Yes.
So a little bit of physiology here.
There are two elements to attacking, well, actually there's three elements to attacking a virus, but let's just talk of two of them for the moment.
The first wave is really the antibody.
Those are chemicals in the bloodstream that attach to the spikes of the coronavirus and stop it docking with tissues in our body and hopefully kill the virus as well.
And they're called neutralizing antibodies.
Now they don't come out of nowhere.
They're produced by white blood cells.
The white blood cells that produce antibodies
antibodies are called B cells.
And some B cells have memory for the antibodies they need to produce.
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