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Immunity from having COVID lasts about 3 months, it seems. Immunity from the vaccine will last for a year or more and will still work as expected even if you ha
by IgorPartola 6y ago
Immunity from having COVID lasts about 3 months, it seems. Immunity from the vaccine will last for a year or more and will still work as expected even if you had COVID. “I’ve had COVID” is a bad reason to refuse the vaccine.
- samatman 6y agoThis is simply incorrect, although I don't blame you for thinking so since there were some sensationalist news articles tripping over themselves to imply that it was the case. Rates of COVID reinfection remain vanishingly small.
- rglullis 6y agoMind to share sources about the immunity lasting only 3 months? From what I read, Corona-virii are in general slow to mutate and infected people should be immune for a longer time. Also, not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but this idea that a vaccine should neatly work in a way that it would be recommended to take it on every season smells of a pharma PR submarine.
- Izkata 6y agoIt comes from a misunderstanding: antibodies last around that long, but so far no one's T-Cells have stopped reacting to the virus. Immunity lasting only as long as the antibodies is also how I understood it to work until mid-summer.
- rglullis 6y agoYeah, I remember an article from October claiming only 5 cases of reinfection. To me these are more likely to have happened due to the people having compromised immune systems than to some specific property of the novel corona.
- grumple 6y agoExperts say active immunity likely lasts for years. Antibodies drop off potentially quickly but that’s not a big deal if you have active immunity.