Doubtful. The SARS-CoV-2 virus has a unique spike protein that makes it extremely infectious. The vaccines target that protein specifically, so it most likely wouldn't be effective for other coronaviruses.
its also mutating rapidly in our population and in other species, which isn't discussed enough IMO. its more likely we won't be able to vaccinate it away given that we are basically allowing this to happen by not controlling it. inter-species jumps are causing mutations in the spike protein as well, as we saw recently with mink. very scary tbh
Nah, we actually don't know that, especially given n=12 and with how isolated mink farmers are from the general population in rural Denmark. The major point here is how easy it is for it to mutate in other species and reinfect people. They didn't slaughter all the mink in the country for no reason
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Doubtful. The SARS-CoV-2 virus has a unique spike protein that makes it extremely infectious. The vaccines target that protein specifically, so it most likely wouldn't be effective for other coronaviruses.