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BrazenRaizen t1_j76ix37 wrote

Reply to comment by Bubbagumpredditor in New evidence suggests that ‘hybrid’ immunity, the result of both vaccination and a bout of COVID-19, can provide partial protection against reinfection for at least eight months. Immunity acquired by booster vaccination alone seems to fade somewhat faster. by MistWeaver80

So now you need to lick doorknobs to catch covid? Simply breathing within 6ft of someone infected will no longer do?

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dbx999 t1_j78gq5l wrote

actually licking a surface will not get you sick with covid. Research has found that particles on surfaces won't get you sick because ingesting covid orally doesn't carry it into the right receptor cells to enter and infect the body. Instead, you swallow it and the stomach acids destroy the virus and you don't get infected.

You have to inhale the virus as it is suspended in the air in microdroplet/aerosol form. This deposits the virus along the lining of your lungs where the ACE2 receptor sites bind with the protein spikes on the virus and this allows the virus to deliver the payload of RNA inside the host cell to incubate and grow and form more covid viruses.

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