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Comment by koheripbal

Covid-19 is a type of virus that does not mutate much at all. It has error correction in replication.

Across all the variants found globally so far, there have only been changes to 20 base pairs - most of which (possibly all) do absolutely nothing.

Your immunity will likely make any re-infection much much lighter - even many years from now.

Interestingly, Coronaviruses generally, can still re-infect you even after you've developed immunity (or been vaccinated) - albeit to a much lesser extent. It's one advantage they have over influenza, and why they can get away with error correction.

parent koheripbal 6 years ago

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