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I'm curious about this too. I'm no epidemiologist, but as I've kept walking around my low-to-mid-density DC neighborhood I've wondered, if an exposure level lik
by heyitsguay 6y ago
I'm curious about this too. I'm no epidemiologist, but as I've kept walking around my low-to-mid-density DC neighborhood I've wondered, if an exposure level likely to cause symptomatic illness is on the order of a minute's close contact with a sick person, then maybe it is good to get a second or two of exposure per week?
- epmaybe 6y agoI feel like this is more of an immunology question, and really it depends on the amount of a viral load you would need to elicit an immune response without systemic signs and symptoms. And then you're basically reinventing the wheel of vaccination.
- daxfohl 6y agoYeah, IANAE also, but I half wonder if this is how a new variant of regular flu gets started. Kids immune systems handle it like any kind of flu virus. The older you are, the weirder this thing looks to your immune system, and less likely able to handle it. If you're introduced to it slowly, the more able your immune system is able to figure it out. So I'm wondering if this thing never goes away, the vaccine never works 100%, but in a year or so it's not much different from any flu in all age groups.
- nradov 6y agoWill that's essentially what happened with the OC43 coronavirus so there's a good chance it will happen again.
- daxfohl 6y agoInterestingly NYT is running an article about this now: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/health/covid-masks-immunity.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/health/covid-masks-immuni... (TLDR: plausible, but nothing conclusive)