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Anyone know if surviving with this coronavirus results in immunity to it afterward?

You develop antibodies to the virus. However if that virus mutates seasonally (like influenza does for example) a different strain may still infect you at a later date.

Thus far that doesn't seem to be the case but who knows what will happen in the future.

According to my understanding, you will possibly not gain immunity after your first infection.

surviving it might not be much fun either depending on the severity of the case. survivors have a 45% risk of pulmonary fibrosis (onset within 3-6 months after initial infection), then there is testicular damage in men, among others, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22412112

> survivors have a 45% risk of pulmonary fibrosis

I'm not seeing this in the link you posted ( https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.18.20024539v... )

A quick online search isn't yielding anything substantial on that either.

EDIT: N/M found it, but they're saying it's a possibility due to observations found during SARS:

> Gaohong Sheng et al. [20] have shown that viral infection can increase the risk of pulmonary fibrosis.Xie et al. [21] found that 45% of patients showed signs of pulmonary fibrosis within one month after being infected with SARS-CoV.Hui et al. [22] found that 36% and 30% of patients infected with SARS-CoV developed pulmonary fibrosis at 3 and 6 months after infection, respectively.Therefore, we believe that pulmonary fibrosis will become one of the serious complications in patients with 2019-nCoV infection.How to prevent and reduce the occurrence of pulmonary fibrosis in patients with 2019-nCoV infection is an urgent problem for medical workers in the treatment of 2019-nCoV.

sorry I haven't provided better context. yepp 100% only based on what we know from SARS.

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