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Calling Covid a "novel" virus was a mistake It was called a novel virus to indicate that no person already had (acquired) immunity against it. What inference y
by tremon 5y ago
Calling Covid a "novel" virus was a mistake
It was called a novel virus to indicate that no person already had (acquired) immunity against it. What inference you make from the word "novel" is on you, not on the rest of the world.
- nradov 5y agoThat remains unclear. Some research indicates that exposure to other coronaviruses might have given some people a limited degree of acquired immunity against SARS-CoV-2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.07.015 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2021.07.015 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2022.103831 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2022.103831