Posted on 04/28/2020 3:20:56 PM PDT by amorphous
Starting in the fall of 2016 and continuing into 2018, researchers at Columbia University in Manhattan began collecting nasal swabs from 191 children, teachers, and emergency workers, asking them to record when they sneezed or had sore throats. The point was to create a map of common respiratory viruses and their symptoms, and how long people who recovered stayed immune to each one.
The research included four coronaviruses, HKU1, NL63, OC42, and C229E, which circulate widely every year but don’t get much attention because they only cause common colds. But now that a new coronavirus in the same broad family, SARS-CoV-2, has the world on lockdown, information about the mild viruses is among our clues to how the pandemic might unfold.
What the Columbia researchers now describe in a preliminary report is cause for concern. They found that people frequently got reinfected with the same coronavirus, even in the same year, and sometimes more than once. Over a year and a half, a dozen of the volunteers tested positive two or three times for the same virus, in one case with just four weeks between positive results.
That’s a stark difference from the pattern with infections like measles or chicken pox, where people who recover can expect to be immune for life.
For the coronaviruses “immunity seems to wane quickly,” says Jeffrey Shaman, who carried out the research with Marta Galanti, a postdoctoral researcher.
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So find out already.
How can the “exspurts at the CDC/NIH/FDA not know?
Remember that guy?
Wouldn’t this make a vaccine pointless, then?
What if you get hit by a bus tomorrow?
Also, I ask a lot of questions, don't I?
“What if immunity to COVID-19 doesn’t last?”
Then will be in some degree of government-imposed lockdown forever, until well find our lost gonads.
This is going way beyond “flatten the curve”.
OMG! a “What If” we must instantly shelter in place till we die!!!!!! It’s the only way to survive!!!!
two choices....
choose to LIVE...
or choose to DIE....
there are no other choices....
Yes it would indicate a vaccine wouldn’t be useful.
What... if...
What... evah...
We don’t know, do we! So stop trying to scare us! When you find out accurate information then tell us! Otherwise, stop trying to totally crash the economy out of your hatred for Trump.
It looks like the Chinese Government believes that this (immunity doesn’t last) is the case. Thus, the shutdown of their economy for months. In 1918, it was the second wave of Spanish Flu that was the killer - something we should never forget.
what if the immunity failure was due to the 4
HIV sequences in the Pangolin-ACE-2 sequence?
good job, Fauxi and Xi.
good job, Gates and Soros. GTH.
Not enough correlative molecular data.
It assumes the re infections are “the same” Coronavirus.
“Then we’re doomed. Doomed!
Remember that guy?”
He was funny. DOOOOOMed!
Exactly. And if your ascared of catching the virus, stay home. Let those of us who aren’t ascared go about living life’s uncertainty.
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