Re:The experiment that proved airborne disease transmission
by beagle3 on Saturday October 03, 2020 @07:32PM
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> By contrast influenza lacks that error correction and mutates much faster, which is why we need a reformulated vaccine every year.
That's true, but that might change soon (the "every year", not the mutation speed): Results of [0] are supposed to be published this quarter. I am hopeful for them to be positive.
[0] https://www.biondvax.com/2020/07/last-of-12400-participants-...
The human species already has a significant level of herd immunity against four other endemic coronaviruses. The same thing will eventually happen with SARS-CoV-2 one way or another, but hopefully we will have an effective vaccine soon enough to accelerate that process while minimizing the death toll.