Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
by IgorPartola on Friday December 11, 2020 @05:43PM
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Immunity from having COVID lasts about 3 months, it seems. Immunity from the vaccine will last for a year or more and will still work as expected even if you had COVID. “I’ve had COVID” is a bad reason to refuse the vaccine.
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Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
by samatman on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:17PM
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This is simply incorrect, although I don't blame you for thinking so since there were some sensationalist news articles tripping over themselves to imply that it was the case.
Rates of COVID reinfection remain vanishingly small.
Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
by grumple on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:12PM
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Experts say active immunity likely lasts for years. Antibodies drop off potentially quickly but that’s not a big deal if you have active immunity.
Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
by rglullis on Friday December 11, 2020 @06:25PM
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Mind to share sources about the immunity lasting only 3 months?
From what I read, Corona-virii are in general slow to mutate and infected people should be immune for a longer time. Also, not to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but this idea that a vaccine should neatly work in a way that it would be recommended to take it on every season smells of a pharma PR submarine.
Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
by Izkata on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:40PM
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It comes from a misunderstanding: antibodies last around that long, but so far no one's T-Cells have stopped reacting to the virus. Immunity lasting only as long as the antibodies is also how I understood it to work until mid-summer.
Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
by rglullis on Friday December 11, 2020 @08:32PM
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Yeah, I remember an article from October claiming only 5 cases of reinfection. To me these are more likely to have happened due to the people having compromised immune systems than to some specific property of the novel corona.