Peter McCullough on health: what the evidence says · JRE #1747
SUBJECT: HEALTH
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the natural infection, the antibody titer is much softer than with the vaccines because with the vaccines, you get antibodies against one protein, the spike protein. With the natural infection, you get antibodies against 27 different proteins.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
SARS-CoV-2's genome does encode roughly two dozen proteins in total: four structural proteins (spike, envelope, membrane, nucleocapsid), 16 non-structural proteins from the ORF1a/ORF1b replicase polyprotein, and several accessory proteins. But the largest proteome-wide antibody study of COVID-19 patients (Shrock et al., Science, 2020, VirScan profiling of 232 patients) found that infection-specific antibody responses are concentrated on just two proteins, spike and nucleocapsid, which showed significantly higher recognition in patients than in pre-pandemic controls. Antibody reactivity to the replicase polyprotein ORF1, the third most frequently recognized target, was present at similar levels in patients and pre-pandemic controls, indicating it mostly reflects pre-existing cross-reactive antibodies from prior seasonal-coronavirus exposure rather than a SARS-CoV-2-specific response; membrane protein, ORF3, and ORF9b were only occasionally recognized. So while the virus contains on the order of 27 proteins and some antibody binding across many of them can be detected, a robust and infection-specific antibody response is concentrated on a small number of proteins, primarily spike and nucleocapsid, not spread evenly across all 27. The claim conflates the total protein count in the viral genome with the number of proteins against which infection generates a distinct, functionally meaningful antibody response.