It’s not an “unpopular” thing to say. It’s a simply wrong thing to say. There’s no evidence to support this.
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Replying to @gorskon
Coronaviruses, if anything, are typified by recrudescence. Even if you’ve been infected before you can be infected again. Sorry. It also makes a vaccine unlikely, and we have had little succes in vaccine strategies against MERS and SARS.
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Replying to @MarkHoofnagle
My understanding, though, is that, unlike most coronaviruses, infection with SARS-CoV results in fairly long term immunity. We don’t yet know if that will be the case with SARS-CoV-2, obviously. Or am I mistaken?
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Replying to @gorskon @MarkHoofnagle
You're not wrong - we just don't know about waning immunity yet. I saw one case of likely reinfection in a Japanese patient. Need more data!
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Replying to @DoctorYasmin @gorskon
Yeah we don’t know yet. I’ve just been making the point we shouldn’t get our hopes too high for a vaccine as a solution as the started work in 2003 after SARS and nothing is out of phase I as far as I can tell.
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Agree. I’m unaware of any potential vaccine candidate that’s farther along than just entering phase I.
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