Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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SvennoJ said:

You should have natural immunity to the flu and cold virus as well by now, why do we still have the flu shot. Why am I still getting a cold.

Natural immunity helps, but is not enough to stop the spread of an ever mutating corona virus. Yearly updated vaccines, like the flu shot, will be needed to keep Covid-19 cases manageable. There is no end to Covid-19. It's here to stay and with vaccines we can reduce it to a severe cold instead of hospitalization and ICU.

I do have natural immunity to the flu and the cold virus, getting a cold isn't a sign of lack of immunity, it's a sign of immunity working well..

Few decades from now, when children of today become adults of the future, they'll do very well against covid19 because they've exposed to it the way we, older generations, were exposed to common cold and flus. The numbers tell us those who previously had the infection are as equally, if not better protected, against covid19 than those who were triple vaccinated, despite how many different variants are already out there!