Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 12:10 pm
JoeMauer89 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 11:38 am
Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 11:16 am
JoeMauer89 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 11:14 am
DocBarrister wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 10:24 am
DocBarrister wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 10:19 am
What many have feared ... world’s first confirmed case of novel coronavirus re-reinfection.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science ... y-n1237840
This suggests that for some or many (or most or all?) people, any immunity through infection/recovery or vaccination will be temporary.
Not good.
DocBarrister
One possible implication ... we may face a future requiring constant vigilance against this virus. Meaning, repeated vaccinations and occasional isolations and shutdowns when local outbreaks occur.
DocBarrister
Read what the article stated,the patient was asymptomatic the throughout the re-infection. Its likely that the his immune system having familiarity with the virus prevented him/her from experiencing any symptoms. This is a rather extremist take, there is nothing that is NOT good about it. Reinfection does not and rarely has to be associated with worse symptoms. This would fly in the face of every scientific principle known to mankind. This isn't a new virus, just a very different strain of the Coronavirus family that has been around for quite a while. This post is leaving a lot of what the article said and inserting your alarmist beliefs into it. I am a casual observer of this forum, but a lot of the time its very hard to even take you serious. You are purposefully divisive, alarmist, insensitive and take things to the extreme every chance you get. I get it, you are unhappy with the current leadership in this country, but that doesn't call for some of the extreme takes that you throw out in regards to this virus. There's a lot of people unhappy with the leadership as you are, yet they don't abandon their sense of rational belief and make such divisive statements as if they are making them just to elicit some sort of response that they may seek.
Go Twins,
JoeMauer89!
Where did you read that this “isn’t a new virus”?
To clarify, I mean it is a new virus. But it comes from a family of viruses that has been in circulation for many many years. It has also proven to share some characteristics to other coronaviruses. This is all I meant.
Go Twins,
JoeMauer89!
Ok. There are new strains to COVID-19. That is certain. I remember early on getting a text from a friend looking to downplay it. He said it was a hoax and directed me to look at a can of Lysol spray....before I bothered I asked him if it was going to list “coronavirus” as something it kills...... I told him not to pay attention to that nonsense. He came around when his daughter tested positive in New Jersey when a lot of people were dying.
Why would it surprise anyone that there is change out there. This virus has a very large genome for a virus with the majority encoding for little or nothing. There is very little evidence that the virulence is any different.
Back to the original post about the reinfection......... If the individual remains asymptomatic, as he currently is, then the immune system is acting exactly as it should. What are his memory T cell counts? How about helper T cell Counts? Do we have an antibody titter after the first infection and it is greater in the second instance? There are currently now how many infected? Over 23 million.........with all the genetic varialbilities of the population could this be an outlier?
Not to say this is not interesting, the most interesting aspects at times are the ones that are unexpected. No saying more should be looked at into this as it definitely should but the notion that this is bad.......real bad.....is something we actually do not know as of yet.