Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Mnementh]

Ka-pi96 said:

Rab said:
Experts are starting to hint at the possibility that the virus will mutate like the common flu and recur every year, so immunities will be redundant and vaccines unusable every year forever, this could be our new normal unless we eradicate it on a World scale

The flu has a vaccine that's used every year though. I don't know if they need to change it slightly or whatever, but regardless there is a yearly flu vaccine. It's even given out for free every year in the UK to vulnerable/elderly people.

"New versions of the vaccines are developed twice a year, as the influenza virus rapidly changes."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_vaccine