COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

It does tell us some things though. It tells us all of the "omg people have had it twice!" shock headlines were false. And in that case, you have to sort of default back to the way basically every other virus in the history of the world behaves; that once you get it, you have immunity either for a period of time or forever.

I think it's incredibly unlikely that people are going to get this virus twice. Just about every doctor and virologist in the world agrees with me. To me it seems a little nutbar at this point to think anything but that Covid-19 behaves the way every other virus in history has.

What about the flu for example? Having it does not give immunity to the next strain or even the same strain about 6 months after infection. There are many viruses that do not confer long term immunity.

Most of the known human coronaviruses are more like influenza than other viruses such as polio or measles in terms of immunity. This virus is yet to be determined. Considering it hasn't even been around for 6 months we kind of have to wait and see on it.