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Re:Japan confirms coronavirus infections without symptoms by DelightOne on Thursday January 30, 2020 @05:04AM (#22190246)
Does immunity still hold for the changed virus?
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Re:Japan confirms coronavirus infections without symptoms by jimworm on Thursday January 30, 2020 @05:53AM (#22190472)
Depends whether the targeted antigen has changed. Best case (for humans) is if it couldn't escape the targeting without deactivating the virus.

RNA viruses do change quickly, but influenza's probably on a different level with its multi-segment, randomly assorted genome.

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