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Yes. It's suspected that immunity is very short lived. > This study provides evidence that re-infections with the same endemic coronavirus are not atypical in
by f38zf5vdt 6y ago
Yes. It's suspected that immunity is very short lived.
> This study provides evidence that re-infections with the same endemic coronavirus are not atypical in a time window shorter than 1 year and that the genetic basis of innate immune response maybe a greater determinant of infection severity than immune memory acquired after a previous infection.
http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ejls106/galanti_shaman_ms_supp.pdf http://www.columbia.edu/%7Ejls106/galanti_shaman_ms_supp.pdf
Even if you recover, there's not a lot of evidence now as to what the duration of immunity will be. With this spreading through the world at different paces, it means that, as commonly predicted, we will see continuous re-emergence as we do with other cold viruses and influenza.
- CyanLite2 6y agoRecovered patients from SARS-1 had long-term antibodies in good concentrations until about 3 years after the infection. We can expect about the same since both coronaviruses are so similar. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851497/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851497/
- rootusrootus 6y agoMaybe we will end up putting this new vaccine research to good use and see if we can knock out some of the other coronaviruses. I'd love a combo vaccine that immunized against a bunch of common cold variants.