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For a fully waxed person, Would it make sense to try to get infected by Delta to build more immunity to fight off that omicron thing? With so many significant
by splittingTimes 5y ago
For a fully waxed person, Would it make sense to try to get infected by Delta to build more immunity to fight off that omicron thing?
With so many significant variations on the spike protein the vaccines will be no help..
- dragontamer 5y agoToo early to tell. This is a variant of concern that has only been aware in the public space for like 3 days. There's pretty much no evidence of... Anything... yet. Gamma avoided natural immunity. Lambda could have avoided the vaccine. Etc etc. Variants and mutations like this come out all the time. The question is if we should care. Well, no one knows yet. This is the time to start classifying and studying the variant.
- mellavora 5y agovaxed or waxed, no. That's not how immunity works.
- dnautics 5y agoNot really, we just don't know, and it could legitimately go either way.
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- kaba0 5y agoThere are already second generation vaccines though, which are more effective against these new variants.
- yread 5y agoIf you're formalin-fixed wax-embedded you have absolutely nothing to worry about anymore.
- lamontcg 5y agoNo. Immunity isn't like a key fitting perfectly into a lock. You already have T-cell immunity against Omicron from the vaccine which will recognize the mutated spike.
- biophysboy 5y agoIt is true that the variant has major escape mutations on the relevant epitopes (the antibody target). But this does not mean that it will completely escape the polyclonal antibodies created by illness/vaccine. And also keep in mind that there are T-cells, which are more robust to virus mutation.
- tclancy 5y agoBrazilian?
- hnarn 5y ago> Would it make sense to try to get infected No. Never.