Re:New antibody neutralizes all known SARS-CoV-2 variants in...
by mnw21cam on Thursday August 18, 2022 @04:55AM
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> Similarly with the cold, which are coronaviruses like COVID just lead to less lasting immunity.
This common knowledge needs to die.
"Well over 200 virus strains are implicated in causing the common cold, with rhinoviruses, coronaviruses, adenoviruses and enteroviruses being the most common."[0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold referencing a web page that has gone missing and has re-appeared as https://www.cdc.gov/features/rhinoviruses/ with slightly different wording.
Re:New antibody neutralizes all known SARS-CoV-2 variants in...
by jacquesm on Thursday August 18, 2022 @04:44AM
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> Unless you're licking buttons on the subway, how could you possibly be getting exposed to that many different strains?
Kids in primary school (aka the local pathogen exchange) will do that.
Re:New antibody neutralizes all known SARS-CoV-2 variants in...
by krageon on Thursday August 18, 2022 @05:02AM
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The quoted paper doesn't support what you say. It also doesn't demonstrate a difference in the elderly. Given that, I'm inclined to take the rest of this post with a grain of salt and I think every other reader should do the same.
For what it's worth adults get the flu about every 5 years[0]. It's not till we get elderly that we can start catching the same or similar strains more frequently.
Similarly with the cold, which are coronaviruses like COVID just lead to less lasting immunity.
Long story short. This kind of research won't help, give it several hundred years and the number of COVID variants will be similarly broad as cold and flus and people will catch them at a stable rate.
[0] https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...