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Re:What other coronaviruses tell us about SARS-CoV-2 by matwood on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:27PM (#23023824)
Presumably immunity goes away once the antibodies are gone, but does the body remember the virus for next time? Assuming the virus does not mutate too much from year to year, at what point will it not be novel anymore to the human body? Will subsequent infections be easier for the body to fight?
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Re:What other coronaviruses tell us about SARS-CoV-2 by christkv on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:32PM (#23023897)
From what I understand you build some resistance as you are exposed to multiple variants of the same flu virus so it's quite possible this would hold for coronavirus making refection less likely to lead to a severe infection.

Lets also not forget that there is likely to be well studied effective anti-virals at some point like we have for the flu today.

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