> It could mutate enough (like the flu) and reinfect, or it could "hide" like herpes and hit you full blown when your immune system isn't operating at full cap

> It could mutate enough (like the flu) and reinfect, or it could "hide" like herpes and hit you full blown when your immune system isn't operating at full capacity. While not criticizing you directly, I cringe every time I see this reported in the media, and even some TV scientists are not immune from these statements. It is a novel virus, all right. We know almost nothing about it, all right. But it's not a magical Star Trek-like being which does not fit any biological hypothesis. Other members of the coronavirus family do not exhibit these properties (hiding like the herpes virus that is), so it is at least unlikely that this will happen. And while it can mutate, it will do so at a much lower rate than influenza, which, due to the structure of its RNA, can have plenty of recombination events which cause far more variation. A nice non technical explanation: https://www.city-journal.org/coronavirus-vaccine https://www.city-journal.org/coronavirus-vaccine