You need to think a bit more positively Red.Originally Posted by reddoor
You realise that giving a vaccine uses the same mechanism in developing antibodies and thus immunity to the virus that an infected person does in becoming a recovered person.
If we can't have immunity from being recovered, then a vaccine won't work either.
Put this virus in perspective. It's new to us hence called a "novel" virus. Yes there have been other types. But this has jumped from animals into a human. Mutated in a way that can infect another human ... Then away it goes creating a pandemic.
Our immune system is not familiar to this strain of virus .. hence getting infected can be deadly to some.
Combine high spread or contagion rates with high potential death rates and we have a deadly pandemic.
Consider when explorers in previous times introduced illness (viruses) which westerners were quite immune to into populations in the Americas and Pacific as an example. The results were catastrophic.
I know the discussion on this goes back and forward.
But we do get sick from viruses now ... and we do develop immunity. Sure the strain may mutate ... but we don't get as sick because the immunity we have from the previous strain puts us in better shape to fight the new strain.
A quote
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Resolving the COVID-19 pandemic quickly hinges on a crucial factor: how well a person’s immune system remembers SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the disease, after an infection has resolved and the patient is back in good health.
This phenomenon, called immune memory, helps our bodies avoid reinfection by a bug we’ve had before and influences the potency of life-saving treatments and vaccines. By starving pathogens of hosts to infect, immune individuals cut off the chain of transmission, bolstering the health of the entire population.
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We will prevail ...
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