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Does anyone know if you keep giving the vaccine to the person after it fails, its effectiveness could eventually trend up to 90+%?


Yeah not sure why this is downvoted, seems a fair question.


It might work the other way - the immune system may get used to a given virus and begin ignoring it.

This is the way anti-allergy therapies work - you inject patients with a progressively higher amounts of the substance the person is used to and the immune system stops responding to it.

With vaccines, there have been cases of this effect (found during testing, and not with covid vaccines so far).


Not sure why you're being downvoted. We give multi-dose vaccinations all the time.




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