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Full immunity is just a hope. Which, IMHO calls the into question the efficacy of vaccines once they are available. Longer trials will be needed to test that.
It is worth noting that even if a vaccine has only modest efficacy (preventing someone from getting ill) it can still have an outsized impact in reducing illness in the population as a whole.
We believe that we are probably looking at a year of hiding in either the SF or Guerneville homes, using Instacart and Amazon for shopping. That's not a complaint... we are very fortunate to have those options.
At our ages, if we contract the disease it's probably lights out.
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'No Evidence' Yet That Recovered COVID-19 Patients Are Immune, WHO Says, NPR, April 25th
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/25/844939777/no-evidence-that-recovered-covid-19-patients-are-immune-who-says
It is worth noting that even if a vaccine has only modest efficacy (preventing someone from getting ill) it can still have an outsized impact in reducing illness in the population as a whole.
Distinguishing vaccine efficacy and effectiveness, Shim and Galvani, 2012.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3798059/
At our ages, if we contract the disease it's probably lights out.
"May you live in interesting times". Yeah, right!
https://skugal.org/2020/05/13/wuhan-reopened-last-month-now-new-coronavirus-infections-spark-mass-testing-and-renewed-fears-2/