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Omicron evades the "natural immunity" that people were getting a hard on for. That explains a lot (not all) of the massive fitness it has - it can infect people
by stefan_ 5y ago
Omicron evades the "natural immunity" that people were getting a hard on for. That explains a lot (not all) of the massive fitness it has - it can infect people that previously had Covid infections again.
- unmole 5y agoDoes it only evade natural immunity and not that imparted by vaccines?
- nradov 5y agoImmunity is a spectrum, not a binary condition. Infection by previous variants appears to still provide a significant level of durable cellular immunity against Omicron. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.06.471446v1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.06.471446v1