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I'm not an epidemiologist either, but to this layperson, the viruses studied seem to have been chosen on criteria that select for short-lived immunity. It seems
by leereeves 6y ago
I'm not an epidemiologist either, but to this layperson, the viruses studied seem to have been chosen on criteria that select for short-lived immunity. It seems likely that "seasonal" viruses, viruses "that regularly circulate to cause the condition we recognize as the common cold" must induce short-lived immunity.
Would it be possible for a virus that induced long-lived immunity to be seasonal, reoccurring year after year?
And why were the other coronaviruses that infect humans left out of the study?
- jhayward 6y ago> And why were the other coronaviruses that infect humans left out of the study Because one of them, SARS-1 went extinct in just over a year due to a heroic international response, and the other, MERS, has about a 35% fatality rate and is unlikely to be found in anyone who does not have direct contact with camels.