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Saying that coronavirus infections in general produce long-lasting immunity is too strong, I think. For non-SARS coronaviruses (e.g. HCoV-OC43), immunity seems
by _delirium 5y ago
Saying that coronavirus infections in general produce long-lasting immunity is too strong, I think. For non-SARS coronaviruses (e.g. HCoV-OC43), immunity seems to drop off within a year: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-1083-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-1083-1
- lamontcg 5y agoA study of 229E finds that reinfection with that HCoV is not due to waning immunity but due to antigenic shift: https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1009453 https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/j...