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No. There might be even opposite effect - antibodies might make subsequent reinfections easier. That happened with some previous coronavirus. As well as with some vaccinations that didn't generate sufficient amount of antibodies - some kids acquired some illness much faster than non-vaccinated ones because the vaccine wasn't strong enough.

Current coronavirus has already multiple distinct strains. Even if they don't mutate further, we would need multiple vaccines. They might also mutate to something more deadly, given the COVID-19 is a mutation of the original SARS with some characteristics of HIV and Ebola.

We are in uncharted territory.




> [...] antibodies might make subsequent reinfections easier. That happened with some previous coronavirus.

I never read about this, can you point me to a source, please?




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