hborre posted at 8:52PM Mon, 08 June 2020 - #4391232

I agree that mask-wearing will not be a long term 'fashion', as soon as there is a vaccine available and enough of the population gets inoculated the danger will pass. My concern is that this novel virus may have the capacity to mutate within a rather short period of time. Currently, epidemiologists feel that COVID-19 may have been around far longer before Wuhan became an epicenter for the disease. I know several individuals, including myself, feeling some symptoms around November akin to COVID although many had received Flu vaccines in and around that time. I would like to see my blood antibody titer for any traces of COVID. That would intrigue me.

Most if not all viruses tend to mutate. Vaccines generally only work if the people making the vaccine can successfully guess which mutation strain will spread and how. That's been one of the greatest advantages Covid has had. No one has encountered this particular strain before, and no one is completely certain how it;'s spread.