Good news from Alsace: the Covid-19 pandemic is (almost) over. NOW WHAT?

Abstract

For the last 4 or so months we have been rushing up to find answers to big questions raised by the Covid-19 pandemic. Besides the obvious ones, relating to the urgency to discover something that could curtail the constant bleeding of deaths caused by the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, there has been a lingering mystery about the disease. This mystery can be formulated as follows: How is it possible that so many highly exposed people, including many with obvious clinical signs of being infected, are persistently negative both in the qRTPCR and the serum antibody test? A paper posted yesterday by a French team provides a more than reasonable explanation to that conundrum and, by doing it, put us in a position to start thinking in the beginning of the end of this pandemic.