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Re:Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier... by eximius on Thursday April 16, 2020 @05:22PM (#22893704)
It's not clear to me that asymtomatic doesn't mean immune. If the primary symptoms are due to over-replication of the virus and not fighting it enough resulting in cell death in lungs and other airways, then asymptomatic infection indicates the immune system is fighting it enough to fend it off.

Now, this rests on symptoms being directly caused by higher virus cell counts rather than toxic byproduct cascades of some sort. I'm not sure that's true

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Re:Coronavirus clue? Most cases aboard U.S. aircraft carrier... by three_seagrass on Thursday April 16, 2020 @06:48PM (#22894368)
This is devolving into semantics. Being a asymptomatic means you are infected, which means you are not immune. You can still develop symptoms later and/or still transmit the disease.

You would be considered immune if your body produced antibodies that prevented infection. This immunity can be gained by successfully fighting the infection or by receiving a vaccination that triggers an immune response.

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