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Re: Captain Crozier Is a Hero

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Sun, 05 Apr 20 6:15 PM | 21 view(s)
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Not a doctor and don't spend so much time on it. I think "the flu" is really just a category of infectious disease. You can't get "the flu" again, if it's the same virus. But you can get "the flu" again if it's a different one. Since viruses are constantly evolving, there are new ones every year.

So if you get flu-23A in the year 2025, you can't get flu-23A for a second time. But you might be able to get flu-23B and you can definitely get flu-24A in 2026. Or something a bit like that.

I don't know how quickly COVID-19 will evolve. Maybe there are 18 COVIDs before this one. But this COVID is as infectious as hell and overwhelms health systems.

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Re: Captain Crozier Is a Hero
By: clo in ALEA
Sat, 04 Apr 20 8:02 PM 		Msg. 35243 of 54959

Why would folks be immune from this one, if they can get the flu again?
Wouldn't that theory apply to the flu?

What am I missing? unless they can create a vaccination, as they do for the flu. Even with that, they don't always pick the right strain for the season.

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