Originally Posted by
IanD
Watching the Horizon programme last night....scientists seem to have no idea as to how long you are immune from infection once you have had it. Minimum seemed to be 3 months but not enough data yet to come up with anything definite. One line of developing a vaccine is to artificially create the Corona element of the virus (through using the viruses genetic code). Manufacture that inert element, inject people, and their immune response is to create the antibodies to tackle the "virus". The body then remembers its immune response if infected with the whole virus and can stop the real virus entering human cells and reproducing. Clever stuff but still 12 to 18 months before this method could be put into mass use. Plus viruses can mutate in that time.
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