Could masks make you immune to COVID? This is a definite and real possibility. With COVID, like many other infectious diseases, you need to get a certain amount of viral particles to develop a severe illness but small amounts can generate an immune response with either an asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic illness. Years ago before the vaccine was developed for smallpox, physicians would take a small amount of material from a vesicle which looks like pimple, from a person with smallpox. Smallpox was also known as variola. Subsequently this material would be injected into a patient who had not had smallpox to make them so immune. This process is called variolation. The same thing may very well be happening with COVID-19 in people who wear masks. It is known from a number of studies that wearing a mask when you are around patients who have this viral infection you are more likely if you develop an infection to develop an asymptomatic infection. It is also known that patients with asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic infections demonstrate a robust T cell immune response to the virus which is protective. I discuss a host of studies supporting the hypothesis that masks make you immune to COVID.
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1. Asymptomatic transmission
2. Masking 2008 study
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3. Hamster model
4. Robust T cell immunity
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Dr. Keith Moran MD, RCPSC, DABIM, RCS, NBE Biography:
I am a consultant in Internal Medicine with special medical interests in gastroenterology, cardiology, and echocardiography. I am a a full-time practising physician in these areas. I was an undergraduate at the University of Toronto, Trinity College where I received a number of scholarships including one for top student at Trinity College. I attended medical school at the University of Toronto graduating with a gold medal. My internship was completed at McMaster University in Hamilton followed by a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Western Ontario in London. I then completed a fellowship in General Internal Medicine at the University of Western Ontario. I have active staff privileges and work as a consultant at my hospital managing the intensive care unit and providing consultative care in all hospital departments. I am a past clinical preceptor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine. I am an active echocardiographer who has been certified and recertified by the National Board of Echocardiography. I am certified in cardiac sonography and have trained and completely educated a number of cardiac sonographers. I am the medical director of my cardiology laboratory which was established in 2001. My laboratory performs echocardiography and stress echocardiography amongst other tests. I maintain my certification in the American Board of Internal Medicine.
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