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[CoccoBill]

I think the influenza virus is a different type of virus than coronaviruses (which are generally associated with colds, not 'flus), and the reason 'flu shots are yearly is because there is a different strain that predominates each year, and the vaccine gets customised to that strain.

Ah yes yes true true, brain fart. Many of the common colds are caused by coronaviruses, influenza by the influenza viruses. My point was just that vaccinations that are good for life are rather the exception than the norm, most of them require boosters. Diphtheria, polio, tetanus, hep b, measles, mumps, rubella...

[MadMojoMonkey]

Ah yes yes true true, brain fart. Many of the common colds are caused by coronaviruses, influenza by the influenza viruses. My point was just that vaccinations that are good for life are rather the exception than the norm, most of them require boosters. Diphtheria, polio, tetanus, hep b, measles, mumps, rubella...

See above. Coronavirus is not rhinovirus. COVID-19 is not a form of the cold.

Also, Vaccines are good for life against the thing you were vaccinated against. If that thing mutates to the point where your vaccine is no longer relevant, then that can certainly happen.

[Poopadoop]

See above. Coronavirus is not rhinovirus. COVID-19 is not a form of the cold.

There's more than one type of coronavirus. They've been around a long time. Covid-19, just like SARS and MERS, belongs to the same family of viruses (coronaviruses) as the ones that can cause the common cold. It's just potentially a lot nastier.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/gene...formation.html

Rhinoviruses also cause cold-type symptoms, but afaik have never mutated into anything deadly the way coronaviruses sometimes do.

Influenza causes 'flu. The 'flu virus mutation also vary from relatively mild to Spanish-flu-we're-fucked intensity.

[MadMojoMonkey]

There's more than one type of coronavirus. They've been around a long time. Covid-19, just like SARS and MERS, belongs to the same family of viruses (coronaviruses) as the ones that can cause the common cold. It's just potentially a lot nastier.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/gene...formation.html

Rhinoviruses also cause cold-type symptoms, but afaik have never mutated into anything deadly the way coronaviruses sometimes do.

Influenza causes 'flu. The 'flu virus mutation also vary from relatively mild to Spanish-flu-we're-fucked intensity.

Minor correction. COVID-19 is not a virus, it's the collected symptoms of the virus replicating and the physiological consequences thereof.
COVID19 = Coronavirus Disease (discovered in) 2019.

The virus is SARS-CoV2 (Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome - Coronavirus 2).
The first SARS wasn't too, too long ago, and was a big deal in China, but was not taken seriously in the West.


Pointless link that has nothing to do with the statement you made is pointless.


Thanks to you and cocco for the similar correction that the cold is a collection of symptoms and not the rhinovirus that causes those symptoms.

I hadn't linked the fact that 2 different viruses with similar symptoms may be bannered under the symptoms as causing the same disease.

In fact, having read cocco's links, I'm actually shocked that so many different things cause what I've considered 1 thing. TIL.

[Poopadoop]

Minor correction. COVID-19 is not a virus, it's the collected symptoms of the virus replicating and the physiological consequences thereof.
COVID19 = Coronavirus Disease (discovered in) 2019.

Thanks. I'll bear that in mind from now on.

The virus is SARS-CoV2 (Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome - Coronavirus 2).
The first SARS wasn't too, too long ago, and was a big deal in China, but was not taken seriously in the West.

There was actually an outbreak in Toronto iirc. They indeed took it seriously. Possibly didn't make the news in the US though.

[CoccoBill]

See above. Coronavirus is not rhinovirus. COVID-19 is not a form of the cold.

"Well over 200 virus strains are implicated in causing the common cold, with rhinoviruses, coronaviruses, adenoviruses and enteroviruses being the most common."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_cold
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronavirus#Common_cold"