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There absolutely is evidence of this. It's just not "immunity for life", which is what people commonly seem to think of when they're talking about immunity. Wh

There absolutely is evidence of this. It's just not "immunity for life", which is what people commonly seem to think of when they're talking about immunity. When you've had an infection with one of those rather harmless yet still pesky other coronaviruses - otherwise known as the common cold - you're also immune, for a limited period of time, that is.

rusk 6y ago
There are plenty of cases of people being reinfected quite quickly and frequency of exposure also seems to correlate with serious illness ... the science is still very much “out” on this.
- BjoernKW 6y ago
  The fastest reinfections known so far have occurred after about 6 months and those cases are still mostly anecdotal (also due to a lack of data).
  - rusk 6y ago
    There is no anecdotal data for immunity either.
    - BjoernKW 6y ago
      “We conclude that neutralizing antibodies are stably produced for at least 5-7 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection,” the team of researchers, lead by Deepta Bhattacharya, an immunobiologist at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, wrote in their report." https://www.healthline.com/health-news/how-long-does-immunity-last-after-covid-19-what-we-know#What-we-currently-know-about-COVID-19-immunity https://www.healthline.com/health-news/how-long-does-immunit...
      - rusk 6y ago
        Interesting. This research is apparently just a few weeks old. I look forward to seeing it corroborated and replicated! EDIT no mention of it in Nature's covid roundup [0]. They must be censoring the research. I've tried googling the author and he seems to be some form of contrarian. [0] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00502-w https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00502-w