HKU1 Archives

Having A Common Cold Is As Good As A Vaccine.

15 December 2020

Learn From The Common Cold. Pretty much everybody now knows that four coronaviruses cause the common cold: duvinacovirus alphacoronavirus HCoV-229E & setracovirus alphacoronavirus HCoV-NL63 and embecovirus or lineage A betacoronaviruses HCoV-HKU1 and HCoV-OC43. That’s the common cold that you can catch over & over and which is dealt with by the innate immune system only, […]

The Common Cold And SARS-CoV-2 Immunity.

30 November 2020

No Vaccine Required. Is it possible that the common cold could can provide immunity through memory T cells to a significant proportion of a population? In recent articles we have highlighted various other reasons why a vaccine is not required. This include; those not at risk (that’s over 99%) don’t need one and those at […]

Déjà vu – memory T cells have seen SARS-CoV-2 before.

23 November 2020

Newly-Discovered Is Not New. In early September we first highlighted the incorrect designation of SARS-CoV-2 as a ‘novel’ or ‘new’ coronavirus when it should have been designated ‘newly-discovered’. There is a subtle but fundamental difference: something that is new did not previously exist whereas something that is newly-discovered already existed but not been discovered yet. […]

Monetising A Vaccine Shows What It’s Really All About.

7 November 2020

LOADSAMONEY! According to the sales pitch on Thursday from investment banks Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley, a COVID-19 vaccine could be a “bumper revenue opportunity“, projected to earn at least $10 billion a year. Morgan Stanley’s projection is at least $10 billion a year across developed countries but Credit Suisse is bigging it up further […]

How many have been killed by the government’s strategy?

3 November 2020

Seasonal Irritants. Coronavirues are seasonal irritants, with four – alpha genus CoV-229E & CoV-NL63 and beta genus CoV-HKU1 & CoV-OC43 – causing the common cold. They are seasonal because, like many viruses such as seasonal or winter flu (the clue being in the name), they need environmental factors to sustain their virulence and therefore maintain […]

Recombination and re-recombination: how SARS-CoV-2 mixes it up.

7 September 2020

Lots of coverage is given to talking about how ‘the coronavirus’ could mutate and spawn new and ever more deadly strains – this despite it apparently already being the most deadly virus in the history of the world ever, which you would think doesn’t really leave it any scope to get worse – as part […]

It is a virus not the virus.

21 March 2020

Most individuals will contract a virus from at least one of the four coronavirus genera many times throughout in their lifetime, with alphacoronaviruses HCoV-229E and HCoV-NL63, and betacoronaviruses HCoV-HKU1 and HCoV-OC43 causing the common cold. Within the fours genera there are at least 23 specific known species of virus and with serotypes and probable species, […]