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Antibodies simply teach memory cells, which is what gives you the secondary (long-lasting) immune response. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_B_cell htt

Antibodies simply teach memory cells, which is what gives you the secondary (long-lasting) immune response. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_B_cell https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_B_cell Still, it's an absolutely brutal way to handle the virus and it's accepting deaths on the order of large wars.

redis_mlc 6y ago
> Still, it's an absolutely brutal way to handle the virus and it's accepting deaths on the order of large wars. So just like the last million years of human history?
collyw 6y ago
Yet we handle influenza that way every year. Covid is a worse virus, but not orders of magnitude worse.