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April 29, 2020

What if immunity to covid-19 doesn’t last?

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:03 am

Antonio Regalad, MIT Technology Review

Researchers say people can catch mild, cold-causing coronaviruses twice in the same year. For the coronaviruses “immunity seems to wane quickly,” says Jeffrey Shaman, who carried out the research with Marta Galanti, a postdoctoral researcher. The big question is what this fizzling, short-lived resistance to common cold viruses means for covid-19. Is there a chance the disease will turn into a killer version of the common cold, constantly out there, infecting 10% or 20% of the population each year, but also continuing to kill one in a hundred? If so, it would amount to a plague capable of shaving the current rate of world population growth by a tenth.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/04/27/1000569/how-long-are-people-immune-to-covid-19/

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