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Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Excellent document. I found, as a layman, the following texts to be informative from my particular aspect:

(page 3311 = 4/18)


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Maybe an oversimplification - but this tells me that genuinely it is not known the degree to which the vaccines can deal with other coronaviruses and imo, it tends to the negative depending on the precise binding opportunities for any specific virus and the cells to which they prefer to bind.

An interesting article from Japan.

“By becoming more transmissible to humans, virulence tends to become lower because it would do no good if it infects lots of people and kills them. A lot of viruses in general were powerful when they first came out, but as they gradually adapt to humans, they would generally boost their infectivity but lower their pathogenicity. Otherwise they would not be able to survive.”
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“It also suggests that vaccines are likely to remain effective because there are similar numbers of re-infections in each group — indicating that the variant is not evading the immune response. This and other modeling studies suggest that B.1.1.7 is around 50% more transmissible than previously circulating viruses.

“It is not resistant to drugs or medicine.”

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/20...ins-normality/