For a fully waxed person, Would it make sense to try to get infected by Delta to build more immunity to fight off that omicron thing?
With so many significant variations on the spike protein the vaccines will be no help..
With so many significant variations on the spike protein the vaccines will be no help..
This is a variant of concern that has only been aware in the public space for like 3 days. There's pretty much no evidence of... Anything... yet.
Gamma avoided natural immunity. Lambda could have avoided the vaccine. Etc etc. Variants and mutations like this come out all the time.
The question is if we should care. Well, no one knows yet. This is the time to start classifying and studying the variant.
But this does not mean that it will completely escape the polyclonal antibodies created by illness/vaccine. And also keep in mind that there are T-cells, which are more robust to virus mutation.
You already have T-cell immunity against Omicron from the vaccine which will recognize the mutated spike.
No. Never.