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Re:Is It a Pandemic Yet? by forgot-my-pw on Monday February 24, 2020 @02:51PM (#22407707)
It's almost better to get infected now where hospitals are not full (if you're in a developed country and generally a healthy person). Wait out 2 weeks, then you build immunity after. Except when the virus mutates :(
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Re:Is It a Pandemic Yet? by pillefitz on Monday February 24, 2020 @04:27PM (#22408639)
It might be possible the second infection will be more severe than the first, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody-dependent_enhanceme...
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Re:Is It a Pandemic Yet? by songshuu on Monday February 24, 2020 @04:09PM (#22408475)
That was the OG notion as regards chickenpox.
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Re:Is It a Pandemic Yet? by ValentineC on Monday February 24, 2020 @06:24PM (#22409492)
Considering how many countries are panicking over the virus, and how much research is being shared, we should hopefully see a vaccine soon.
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Re:Is It a Pandemic Yet? by oska on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @08:01AM (#22412804)
So far no vaccine has ever been developed for a human coronavirus. That includes SARS-COV (2003), MERS and the two common cold coronaviruses. So I wouldn't be counting on a vaccine being developed for SARS-COV-2 any time soon.
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Re:Is It a Pandemic Yet? by thomasjoulin on Monday February 24, 2020 @08:25PM (#22410161)
if it's anything like the flu, the virus mutates and even with yearly vaccines 3-5 million people get sick and half a million die
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