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Quixote1818

(28,960 posts) Fri Apr 10, 2020, 08:17 PM Apr 2020

Interesting. Coronavirus cold viruses from 30 years ago haven't mutated hardly at all.

So likely this coronavirus won't mutate enough this fall to re-infect many people. Fauci seems to think if you get it you will be immune but this fellow isn't 100% convinced. Still very interesting. Flu viruses are not nearly as stable and can change enough in a year that you are no longer immune.

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Interesting. Coronavirus cold viruses from 30 years ago haven't mutated hardly at all. (Original Post) Quixote1818 Apr 2020 OP

But there is no vaccine for the common cold. hedda_foil Apr 2020 #1

There are more than 200 varieties of the common cold you can get Quixote1818 Apr 2020 #2

Correct answer is: We don't know... Hence the 'novel' JCMach1 Apr 2020 #3

hedda_foil

(16,375 posts)

1. But there is no vaccine for the common cold.

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Fri Apr 10, 2020, 09:29 PM

Apr 2020

Quixote1818

(28,960 posts)

2. There are more than 200 varieties of the common cold you can get

Reply to hedda_foil (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 10, 2020, 09:34 PM

Apr 2020

They would need a crap load of vaccines to get them all. This virus will probably become another variety of common cold once most folks have had it and have some kind of immunity to it.

https://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/cold-guide/common_cold_causes

JCMach1

(27,572 posts)

3. Correct answer is: We don't know... Hence the 'novel'

Reply to Quixote1818 (Original post)

Fri Apr 10, 2020, 09:35 PM

Apr 2020

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