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Very much it. Getting influenza antibodies once only protects you for that season, until a new strain emerges few months down the line.
by baybal2 5y ago
Very much it.
Getting influenza antibodies once only protects you for that season, until a new strain emerges few months down the line.
- drno123 5y agoBut influenza virus mutates much more quickly than Sars-cov-2.
- swiley 5y ago"mutates" is probably the wrong word. My understanding is that it combines different genes. That's why the names for different flue viruses always contain numbers: to indicate which forms of the different proteins the genes are expressing.
- toolz 5y agoinfluenza mutates much faster than the covid family [1] - looking at the other coronavirus family there is plenty of reason to have expectations that this will become an endemic mild seasonal cold. The most similar coronaviruses provide life long immunity (please don't mistake immunity as being unable to experience symptoms, just means bad clinical outcomes will likely plummet due to immune system recognition) [2] [1] https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/06/10/sars-cov-2-dna-suggests-single-vaccine-will-be-effective/ https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/06/10/sars-cov-2-dna-suggests-singl... [2]https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.17.423313v1.full https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.17.423313v1....