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What if we infected people purposefully with common cold coronaviruses to help them get a level of immunity? Common cold isn't fatal or dangerous right? Could t
by belltaco 6y ago
What if we infected people purposefully with common cold coronaviruses to help them get a level of immunity? Common cold isn't fatal or dangerous right? Could this work as a 'vaccine' or prophylactic? You wouldn't even need to test people with this test before doing that because the people with immunity will just not get sick with the cold.
- dogma1138 6y agoIt’s not the “common cold” as in rhinovirus, about 10-30% of cases of cold are caused by corona viruses other than SARS-COV2. Since corona viruses are quite common it will be hard to know which one causes this immune response. The interesting part is that early on tests of MERS and SARS survivors didn’t indicate an adaptive immune response against COVID-19.
- cameldrv 6y agoFrom what I've read, immunity to other coronaviruses typically only lasts a year or so. SARS hasn't infected anyone in over a decade, and it's been a few years since a MERS outbreak.
- pengaru 6y agoEveryone already gets exposed to common colds, hence common.