The World Health Organization on Friday warned against assumptions that people who’ve recovered from COVID-19 will necessarily avoid being infected again.
Okay, so if getting SARS-CV-2 and developing detectable antibodies does not protect against subsequent re-infections, would a vaccine even be possible?
If this is true, then I have to assume that Covid-19 isn’t going to turn into a one-off disease that people can forget about once their infection is over like chicken pox. It’ll turn into a disease like the flu where we have to get annual vaccinations in order to ensure there isn’t another massive outbreak.
I figure we’ll need a shot every year, and presumably, like the flu, it won’t cover all strains. Frightening article in the Post today about how young people are getting massive strokes from the virus. People should be more aware of this.
Patience is the best medicine for this virus at the moment. I say that as someone that hasn’t hugged his wife (who is a Doctor) in about 2 months or my mom.
I vote that we hire an army of introverts to redesign everything this time around. The extroverts have held sway for way too long with things like open office designs.
The virus would never have had a chance in an introvert-led world.
Yes, I told my son about it (he’s 32) and told him to tell his friends. I suspect that these younger adults had mild symptoms that they ignored (as they’re apt to do). My daughter is a hypochondriac so I’m afraid to tell her …
Maybe our “leaders” could actually keep people up to date on essential information like this. That’s a joke.
I don’t think the WHO is saying it won’t protect, just that they don’t know the details yet. Could be flu-like and mutate a lot, as people are saying, or could be short-term immunity, or (I think, though I’m no virologist) could be that a vaccine would produce an immune response that’s adequate and different from that of an infection. Seems like they’re also allowing for the possibility that it will – they just aren’t sure yet.
SOROS Group International™ has bunkers on all 8 continents (including the one in the middle of the Indian Ocean that he’s successfully kept off the maps, the one that the Malasian Airlines flight flew to). So I’m sure it’s possible.