Study finds people have short-lived immunity to seasonal coronaviruses

Re:Study finds people have short-lived immunity to seasonal ... by tinus_hn on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @11:35AM (#24629090)

Sorry, if there’s no long lived immunity, there also can’t be a vaccine.

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Re:Study finds people have short-lived immunity to seasonal ... by maire on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @11:39AM (#24629142)

They are hoping the immunity lasts 12 months. Then you would take a booster in your annual flu shot. I could live with that.

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Re:Study finds people have short-lived immunity to seasonal ... by kmm on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @11:42AM (#24629183)

That is not necessarily true. It's possible for a vaccine to elicit a stronger or longer lasting immune response than the pathogen itself. For example by adding adjuvants

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunologic_adjuvant

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Re:Study finds people have short-lived immunity to seasonal ... by postalrat on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @12:27PM (#24629810)

I don't see where in that article it says what you are describing. Only that adjuvants may improve the response to a vaccine. The response to the pathogen is not considered.

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Re:Study finds people have short-lived immunity to seasonal ... by MaxBarraclough on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @12:09PM (#24629554)

That doesn't sound right. Perhaps there could be a stream of vaccines rather than a one-off.

Also, if you can get enough people vaccinated at one time to provide herd immunity, perhaps it wouldn't be necessary to have long-term immunity, as the pandemic could be ended there and then.

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