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Re:The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered by soperj on Friday April 23, 2021 @07:20PM (#26920411)
>I think that's probably wrong? The most likely outcome would be that after the initial pandemic subsided (with lots of deaths), most people would catch it when they were reasonably young and then be mostly protected.

Then why hasn't that happened with malaria?

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Re:The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered by jefftk on Friday April 23, 2021 @08:17PM (#26920829)
Malaria is a very different sort of disease? Among other things, covid is something that (a) doesn't seem to badly affect children and (b) seems to give some kind of immunity. Malaria does not have (a).
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Re:The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered by warrenm on Wednesday May 05, 2021 @03:57PM (#27054886)
Malaria also doesn't [seem] to have (b)

Getting malaria doesn't inherently make you less likely to get it again (if anything, it's the other way around)

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