the bar is dropping
6 February 2021 09:41![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
m_d_hAs more data come in about the various variants of COVID that are spreading around the world, it is looking more likely that people can get reinfected with another variant of COVID after approximately six months, and that the reason to get vaccinated is not to prevent infection, but to prevent hospitalization and/or death when infected.
If your body has seen something similar to this variant of COVID before, either via vaccination or prior infection, then your immune system will do a better job of getting rid of it. That doesn't mean you won't get sick, but it means you're far less likely to die.
This has me wondering whether my brother had COVID twice. He and his doctor thought he had it during the summer, because of his symptoms and chest X-Ray, but then he tested positive for it in December and was feverish for days.
It's looking more and more like annual COVID shots will become a thing, and we'll never truly get rid of it. I'm looking forward to the interesting debates we'll have after most of us are vaccinated and yet COVID is still a thing. Whether masks will become a forever thing in urban parts of the US, and while riding mass transit and airplanes, or while attending mass gatherings. What will the median public opinion be about prevention in February 2022?
If your body has seen something similar to this variant of COVID before, either via vaccination or prior infection, then your immune system will do a better job of getting rid of it. That doesn't mean you won't get sick, but it means you're far less likely to die.
This has me wondering whether my brother had COVID twice. He and his doctor thought he had it during the summer, because of his symptoms and chest X-Ray, but then he tested positive for it in December and was feverish for days.
It's looking more and more like annual COVID shots will become a thing, and we'll never truly get rid of it. I'm looking forward to the interesting debates we'll have after most of us are vaccinated and yet COVID is still a thing. Whether masks will become a forever thing in urban parts of the US, and while riding mass transit and airplanes, or while attending mass gatherings. What will the median public opinion be about prevention in February 2022?