Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
by codingdave on Friday December 11, 2020 @07:50PM
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My parents just recovered from COVID and were told by their doctor that the current thinking is getting COVID gives you immunity for at least 90 days. Could be more, but they are not telling people to rely on it beyond 90.
Where did you get the information that it was several years?
Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
by copperx on Friday December 11, 2020 @08:05PM
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Even 90 days is a bit optimistic; people have been reinfected soonwr than that. You can rely on 30 days pretty safely. 90 days is stretching it.
Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
by rimliu on Saturday December 12, 2020 @06:31AM
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This again. When will it stop?
Yes some people get reinfected. These are extremely rare. Usually it is because of the weakened immune system.
Others should be fine for months:
Re:Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
by samatman on Saturday December 12, 2020 @12:39PM
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I just keep pointing out that this is, in fact, how vaccines work, and hoping for the best.
To whom it may concern: vaccines simulate the process triggered in the immune system by recovery from infection. They don't float around in your body for years: they create immunity the same way the disease itself does. More or less: obviously you don't get sick!
Which is great, I hadn't been that sick in ten years, it was pretty awful. Please get vaccinated if you haven't gotten COVID. If you have, well, maybe you want to do it just in case? I do not.
A lot of misinformation out there...
Having recovered completely from such an infection, I should be fine without it, and vaccines generally don't feel great and are not, in fact, without risk.
I think vaccines are a wonderful technology, to be clear. I'll get one for COVID only if it's standing between me and, say, getting on an airplane or entering a foreign country, which, let's be real: it probably will. States see like a state, after all; you can't just be immune to infection, you have to be legibly immune.