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OmCheeto
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How is Covid the same and different than the flu?Rive said:Sure. Worked. But, sadly, that won't have much prediction power regarding the future.
Those lines are converging back to the baseline there: some assessment will be needed to check if it's a general trend, or just the relevance of the available boosters gone as new strains emerged: whether we could get back that 'work' with updated boosters...
With the best available one here is 'up to date' () against Omicron only, what do you think about the efficiency I can expect?
Are there different strains? Yes.
Are some strains worse than others? Yes
Are new strains expected to emerge? Yes
So in response to your comments and question, I would say it's not much different than the flu, other than it's a lot deadlier. Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you expect the Covid vaccines to work like the Polio or Small Pox vaccines, where they seem to provide decades long immunity. (This article in Scientific American seems to imply that we have no idea how long a Small Pox vaccine is good for.)
I would be interested to see what other similarities and dissimilarities there are between the various bugs and our vaccines to combat them. Does anyone know how long an H1N1 vaccine lasts for the average person?