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Re:Deaths due to Covid-19 compared with deaths from influenz... by sdfkkksdfsdff on Thursday October 08, 2020 @06:16AM (#24717716)
Influenza is also new every year. There have been other Coronaviruses before.
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Re:Deaths due to Covid-19 compared with deaths from influenz... by AstralStorm on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:24PM (#24721448)
Not exactly new. Partial immunity to many strains of flu is common and widespread. Not so much to SARS family coronaviruses. (Which are very different from other coronaviruses, much more than flu strains between each other.)
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Re:Deaths due to Covid-19 compared with deaths from influenz... by sdfkkksdfsdff on Thursday October 08, 2020 @06:50PM (#24724784)
Nevertheless, isn't the latest finding that many people already seem to be partially immune - perhaps because there are some similarities to other Corona viruses that the immune system can latch on to?
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