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Re:Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier... by kelnos on Thursday April 16, 2020 @03:55PM (#22892845)
The US military is not a representative sample of people; it's a bunch of people with better health and fitness than the general population. And the military is an institution that will reject people from joining based on a lot of the health conditions that make COVID-19 more dangerous to them.

It's useful data, to be sure, but it also highlights that the disease can be really dangerous for people outside certain groups.

> The best way to reach herd immunity is to have lots of immune people around you.

It's not at all clear yet that recovering from COVID-19 confers any lasting immunity.

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Re:Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier... by Mikeb85 on Thursday April 16, 2020 @04:07PM (#22892966)
> It's not at all clear yet that recovering from COVID-19 confers any lasting immunity.

Coronaviruses aren't new...

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Re:Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier... by kelnos on Thursday April 16, 2020 @04:46PM (#22893368)
Not sure how that's relevant. Coronaviruses behave differently from each other, and it's not clear how this one behaves wrt post-recovery immunity.

And to your point, many forms of the "common cold" are caused by coronaviruses, and it's not like herd immunity is a thing there.

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Re:Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier... by Mikeb85 on Thursday April 16, 2020 @04:50PM (#22893399)
Short to medium term immunity is conferred to survivors of other coronaviruses. No reason to expect it won't be the same with this one.
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Re:Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier... by Mikeb85 on Thursday April 16, 2020 @06:39PM (#22894302)
Literally every health authority including the WHO is assuming immunity will be a thing...
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Re:Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier... by wbronitsky on Thursday April 16, 2020 @06:59PM (#22894445)
Please show me the data you have so we can have a shared understanding of the facts. Until then, there is no reason to continue this discussion.
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