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MartinBrodeur posted...

Damn, that's honestly the first time I've ever heard of that. Throughout this pandemic all I've heard was that the body will eventually adapt to covid due to previous infections and/or vaccinations and in due time covid will be reduced to a cold like sickness for most people. From what you're saying not only is that wrong, it's having the opposite effect. Well damn

The problem is that coronaviruses generate lots of non-neutralizing antibodies. Essentially, by tricking your body into pumping out antibodies that don't actually neutralize the virus, future infections occur more quickly because the few neutralizing antibodies you do have are dramatically under-produced relative to the others. And those infections only bolster the production of the useless antibodies, not the neutralizing ones. So the more times you're infected, the more bad antibodies you make.

There's even emerging evidence that this is the case in humans.

https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/immune-distraction-from-previous-colds-leads-to-worse-covid-infections