Remember when politicians said everyone should get covid to develop heard-immunity? And then we had more than one million deaths since then?

  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.social
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    4 days ago

    Let me rephrase it. Since COVID is endemic, their immunities being reset won’t matter much, and that’s why we still need to get an annual vaccine.

    The plus side to that is that when a virus becomes endemic its usually less severe (which it has been). This is an evolutionary thing, as the virus that propagates more if it’s not killing its hosts.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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      4 days ago

      My understanding is that COVID hasn’t simply become less severe, we’ve become more immune due to exposure. Our immune systems have adjusted to COVID after basically everyone has been infected or vaccinated.