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by jayd16 1876 days ago
So light COVID exposure would produce enough of an immune response to trigger influenza immunity but not COVID immunity?
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It wouldn't produce an immunity, it would just keep the innate immune response active enough to prevent the average small cluster of COVID or flu viruses from replicating and growing into a full blown infection. This wouldn't even give the adaptive immune system a chance to develop an immunity to either of them.

If someone went to the COVID or flu ward and had someone cough in their face, they'd still get infected because that kind of exposure is generally too much for the innate immune system to catch.