Re:I'm not an anti-vaxxer but vaccine passports treat me lik...
by tzs on Sunday September 19, 2021 @01:56PM
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> We’re seeing that people can get reinfected, so it’s unlikely natural immunity will protect you from Covid any more than the flu or a cold.
If COVID immunity ends up working like cold immunity that would be fine. About 20% of colds are caused by coronaviruses that caused deadly pandemics when they first appeared in humans. As with COVID these tended to cause much more serious illness in non-immune adults than in non-immune children.
Now we all get them as non-immune children, and although that does not confer upon us immunity from reinfection it does confer protection against serious illness.
If COVID immunity ends up working like cold immunity that would be fine. About 20% of colds are caused by coronaviruses that caused deadly pandemics when they first appeared in humans. As with COVID these tended to cause much more serious illness in non-immune adults than in non-immune children.
Now we all get them as non-immune children, and although that does not confer upon us immunity from reinfection it does confer protection against serious illness.