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I know her question was genuine because she had been gravely concerned about her husband, who has difficult-to-treat asthma, and was worried that his lungs would not cope well should he be infected with Covid-19.

Of course, as a scientist, it is easy for me to cringe at the ridiculous beliefs the uninformed have about diseases, their origins and their treatment strategies. The outrageous theories about magnets and 5G chips being inserted into the bloodstream via a vaccine easily make my blood boil at their glaring ignorance.

At face value, the first three might appear genuine, while the latter two were obviously ridiculous and were easily debunked, which highlighted for me that not all the questions about vaccines are based on conspiracy theories and/or pseudoscience, something I have written about extensively in the past.

It is understandable that the public might not trust pharmaceutical companies and/or their intentions, as they often make large profits, but medicine and medical science is pure. It is reproducible and clean. Covid-19 is too new and too deadly for scientists to conclude that infection confers any long-lasting natural immunity, if any at all, so leaving it to chance would just be dangerous. Families have been left devastated by this pandemic, and to dare the virus would simply be reckless.

What’s more, it’s much too early to know for sure whether one form of immunity is stronger or longer-lasting than another.

 

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