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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by gus_massa on Monday November 16, 2020 @08:35AM (#25111421)
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold

> Well over 200 virus strains are implicated in causing the common cold, with rhinoviruses being the most common.

> Vaccination has proven difficult as there are many viruses involved and they mutate rapidly. Creation of a broadly effective vaccine is, therefore, highly improbable.

IIRC the virus in the rhinoviruses family mutates more rapidly than the virus in the coronavirus family.

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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by marcosdumay on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:25AM (#25113515)
Does it mutate as fast as the influenza? If we could reduce the colds by the same amount we reduced the flu, it would already be a large gain.
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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by usrusr on Monday November 16, 2020 @12:26PM (#25114369)
We'll see how many of them are still around after The Great Hand-Washing of 2020
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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by jhayward on Monday November 16, 2020 @10:22AM (#25112744)
> IIRC the virus in the rhinoviruses family mutates more rapidly than the virus in the coronavirus family.

This may be true, I don't know. I do know that my experience with coronavirus colds is that they hit much harder and have more severe symptoms compared to rhinovirus colds. So well worth taking out just the CV segment.

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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by peteretep on Monday November 16, 2020 @10:48AM (#25113094)
How did you know which type you had?
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Re:Moderna Covid vaccine candidate almost 95% effective, tri... by jhayward on Monday November 16, 2020 @01:52PM (#25115471)
It's a conclusion from symptoms. Complete lack of upper respiratory involvement, heavy lung involvement, very hard immune response symptoms for 5 days(CV) vs copious runny nose, sneezing, stuffy head for 3 days (RV).
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