The premise of this question can be answered with two words: the flu. Different strains come around every year, our immunity wanes to strains we have already been exposed to, so we get the flu shot every year. We will have to do the same with this vaccine with the hope of taking covid-19 out of circulation.

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Anonymous wrote:The immune response from the vaccine starts out as much higher than someone who had COVID, but will drop off eventually - 6 months to a year. So most likely people will need to be re vaccinated. It just haven’t been discussing that yet.

Also if enough people can get vaccinated, we can contain the virus before the immune response from the vaccine drops making infection much more difficult

What you’re describing sounds an awful lot like “herd immunity”.

I thought that was bogus.

Herd immunity has never been achieved without a vaccine. Her immunity is very real when you inoculate people. Hence why we don't see polio anymore. Once people stop their vaccines, or enough people do, we see resurgences, such as with measles.

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Anonymous wrote:Most people do get long term immunity from COVID. Reinfection is rare, and it's not clear if these are true reinfections or that the virus was hiding in the body and then flared up again.

Wrong. I got COVID. Now I am negative on the antibody test 5 months later. My friend got it twice. So, no. We are not even getting short term immunity from COVID. And the disease is not that old that we can say that there is long term immunity.

See? This is what I’m talking about.

How is a vaccine going to work then? It makes no sense.

Why don’t you do some research.

Because I’m not a researcher. I’m a decorator.

So decorators can’t research??!! Surely you can google “covid immunity” and scan the results for legitimate sources and read those sources. I did that and got an interesting NYT article, which I can’t post for some reason....

NP

I'm not sure this thread was posted in good faith to get an answer to a question, so doing the obvious things to answer a question are not going to happen.

You could be right. Ever since vaccine results were released, there's been a campaign on these boards to scare people away from getting vaccinated.

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Anonymous wrote:Most people do get long term immunity from COVID. Reinfection is rare, and it's not clear if these are true reinfections or that the virus was hiding in the body and then flared up again.

Wrong. I got COVID. Now I am negative on the antibody test 5 months later. My friend got it twice. So, no. We are not even getting short term immunity from COVID. And the disease is not that old that we can say that there is long term immunity.

See? This is what I’m talking about.

How is a vaccine going to work then? It makes no sense.

Do not listen to PP. What they posted was just dumb on so many levels. A sample size of two, based on their own personal anecdotes, is no cause to say "wrong" to anything. As evidenced by your reaction, people like PP are the problem with the internet...spouting conspiracy theories, half-truths, complete lies, etc. Just know that PP has exactly zero credibility on this subject.

Some of the latest research shows the possibility of long-term immunity.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/17/health/coronavirus-immunity.html

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Anonymous wrote:Most people do get long term immunity from COVID. Reinfection is rare, and it's not clear if these are true reinfections or that the virus was hiding in the body and then flared up again.

Wrong. I got COVID. Now I am negative on the antibody test 5 months later. My friend got it twice. So, no. We are not even getting short term immunity from COVID. And the disease is not that old that we can say that there is long term immunity.

See? This is what I’m talking about.

How is a vaccine going to work then? It makes no sense.

Why don’t you do some research.

Because I’m not a researcher. I’m a decorator.

So decorators can’t research??!! Surely you can google “covid immunity” and scan the results for legitimate sources and read those sources. I did that and got an interesting NYT article, which I can’t post for some reason....

NP

I'm not sure this thread was posted in good faith to get an answer to a question, so doing the obvious things to answer a question are not going to happen.

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Anonymous wrote:Most people do get long term immunity from COVID. Reinfection is rare, and it's not clear if these are true reinfections or that the virus was hiding in the body and then flared up again.

Wrong. I got COVID. Now I am negative on the antibody test 5 months later. My friend got it twice. So, no. We are not even getting short term immunity from COVID. And the disease is not that old that we can say that there is long term immunity.

See? This is what I’m talking about.

How is a vaccine going to work then? It makes no sense.

Why don’t you do some research.

Because I’m not a researcher. I’m a decorator.

So decorators can’t research??!! Surely you can google “covid immunity” and scan the results for legitimate sources and read those sources. I did that and got an interesting NYT article, which I can’t post for some reason....

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Anonymous wrote:Reinfection is extremely rare. Less than 1 percent. So the vaccine is still going to be extremely beneficial.

Much much less than 1%. It's a handful of people at this point. If one of the poster's friends had it twice, they should contact the medical authorities.

Then why are there all these people posting just the opposite?

Because DCUM posters are not medical authorities.

But they certainly claim to be smart! They went to an Ivy and have high HHI, FFS!

Or objectively high IQs.

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Anonymous wrote:Reinfection is extremely rare. Less than 1 percent. So the vaccine is still going to be extremely beneficial.

Much much less than 1%. It's a handful of people at this point. If one of the poster's friends had it twice, they should contact the medical authorities.

Then why are there all these people posting just the opposite?

Because they were really sick in X month so it must have been COVID. And they simply don't understand how immunity works.

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Anonymous wrote:Reinfection is extremely rare. Less than 1 percent. So the vaccine is still going to be extremely beneficial.

Much much less than 1%. It's a handful of people at this point. If one of the poster's friends had it twice, they should contact the medical authorities.

Then why are there all these people posting just the opposite?

Because DCUM posters are not medical authorities.

But they certainly claim to be smart! They went to an Ivy and have high HHI, FFS!

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Anonymous wrote:Reinfection is extremely rare. Less than 1 percent. So the vaccine is still going to be extremely beneficial.

Much much less than 1%. It's a handful of people at this point. If one of the poster's friends had it twice, they should contact the medical authorities.

Then why are there all these people posting just the opposite?

Because DCUM posters are not medical authorities.

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Anonymous wrote:Most people do get long term immunity from COVID. Reinfection is rare, and it's not clear if these are true reinfections or that the virus was hiding in the body and then flared up again.

Wrong. I got COVID. Now I am negative on the antibody test 5 months later. My friend got it twice. So, no. We are not even getting short term immunity from COVID. And the disease is not that old that we can say that there is long term immunity.

I'm talking about current research, not your personal anecdotes.

It will be like the flu shot where it will protect some from some strains and that's it.

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Anonymous wrote:Reinfection is extremely rare. Less than 1 percent. So the vaccine is still going to be extremely beneficial.

Much much less than 1%. It's a handful of people at this point. If one of the poster's friends had it twice, they should contact the medical authorities.

Then why are there all these people posting just the opposite?

Anonymous wrote:Reinfection is extremely rare. Less than 1 percent. So the vaccine is still going to be extremely beneficial.

Much much less than 1%. It's a handful of people at this point. If one of the poster's friends had it twice, they should contact the medical authorities.

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Anonymous wrote:Most people do get long term immunity from COVID. Reinfection is rare, and it's not clear if these are true reinfections or that the virus was hiding in the body and then flared up again.

Wrong. I got COVID. Now I am negative on the antibody test 5 months later. My friend got it twice. So, no. We are not even getting short term immunity from COVID. And the disease is not that old that we can say that there is long term immunity.

See? This is what I’m talking about.

How is a vaccine going to work then? It makes no sense.

Why don’t you do some research.

Because I’m not a researcher. I’m a decorator.