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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by nradov on Friday February 04, 2022 @03:39AM (#30204303)
Due to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), medical insurers aren't legally allowed to set premiums based on vaccination status. But I would still encourage everyone eligible to protect themselves by getting vaccinated regardless of insurance issues.

https://www.healthcare.gov/how-plans-set-your-premiums/

Cellular immunity is highly durable and effective.

https://peterattiamd.com/covid-part2/

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Re:What the Omicron wave is revealing about human immunity by mrtesthah on Friday February 04, 2022 @04:57AM (#30204807)
>Cellular immunity is highly durable and effective.

The question is not how long the immunity lasts (based on original SARS patients, probably multiple decades to a lifetime), but whether affinity-matured T-cells can sufficiently cover the antigen-space of future ACE2-binding spike proteins.

Somatic hypermutation might still be too complex to model computationally to answer that question outright.

Do you know whether this question is answerable in another way?

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