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  • SSJBlueStalin [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    It looks like immunity lasts like nine months, however reinfection doesnt look like it is as bad.

    However a new strain can restart that from square one, and with so many infections its getting lots of chances to mutate

    • Wmill [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I didn't know about the 9 months part. I was just thinking about the thing mutating and just going through this again but with people thinking it was no big deal because they recovered.

      • SSJBlueStalin [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        So yeah, there are two routes to that. Most other type corona viruses we have experience with have strong immunity on the order of nine months. So all the progress towards natural herd immunity will go away within an 18 month period as best we can tell.

        Or, like you postulated. One good mutation, which is inevitable at some point, amd we get to do the dance again

        So best case senario, when we get a vaccine set up and running, and widely distributed, it is an unknown and finite ammount of time before a new strain pops up. Just like how we get flu shots only without decades of instutional knowledge on how ro handle it.