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> but as far as we know immunity to any of them is immunity to all of them. OK. The longevity of the immunity is also an issue perhaps; at least they have writ

• SpicyLemonZest 6y ago
  The reporting on reinfection is actually a pretty positive sign. If 10% or even 1% of people could be reinfected, you’d expect to see huge numbers of reinfections, so the fact that the news is still reporting individual cases of reinfection suggests it won’t be a practical concern.
• dtech 6y ago
  > so even the people who do become immune may not stay that way forever... In my country there have been hundreds of thousands of confirmed Covid infections. There have been <100 confirmed re-infections. It's very early to draw the conclusion that people in general don't build up lasting immunity, and there is more than enough data to support that most people do build up immunity of several months at least. If the latter wasn't true you'd see much more re-infections.
  • bjarneh 6y ago
    > there is more than enough data to support that most people do build up immunity of several months at least. OK, some (needed) good news..