Covid19 Part XIX-25,802 in ROI (1,753 deaths) 5,859 in NI (556 deaths) (21/07)Read OP

ACitizenErased wrote: »

I have seen zero reports of this tbh

ACitizenErased wrote: »

Transport companies reporting very high compliance

https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1282657744118591488?s=21

fritzelly wrote: »

Where are all these people getting reinfected?

ACitizenErased wrote: »

I have seen zero reports of this tbh

big syke wrote: »

No as in where are the reports of it?

These plethora of accounts of cases.

*hint* its not actually happening.

People can get the coronavirus more than once, experts warn — recovering does not necessarily make you immune

On Wednesday, Japanese authorities reported the first confirmed case of reinfection. A tour guide in Osaka first tested positive for the coronavirus in late January, then was discharged from the hospital three weeks ago after showing signs of recovery. But she returned to the hospital after developing a sore throat and chest pain and tested positive for the coronavirus once again.

Zhan Qingyuan, director of pneumonia prevention and treatment at the China-Japan Friendship Hospital, warned last month that this could happen.

“For those patients who have been cured, there is a likelihood of a relapse,” Zhan said in a briefing on January 31. “The antibody will be generated; however, in certain individuals, the antibody cannot last that long.”

Reinfections among patients in China have been reported as well.

How Worried Should We Be about Reinfection or Reactivation of the Virus?
New reports from South Korea, indicating that the country has 74 patients who retested positive after appearing to beat the virus, indicate that building up “herd immunity” might be a longer and more difficult process than we thought: “‘The ratio of patients retesting positive is very small even if we were to see more cases. . . .It is important to examine the virus and check for infectivity in these cases,’ said Kwon Joon-wook, deputy director of the KCDC, in a daily virus status briefing earlier in the week.”

Are these just cases where someone falsely tests negative — perhaps more than once? — and a subsequent test shows an accurate positive result? The Korean CDC is characterizing these cases as “reactiviation” of the virus, not re-infection. The body fights off the virus for a while, at a sufficient level to make the virus seem dormant, and then the immune system stops fighting it as effectively, causing a second flare-up.

Coronavirus Reinfection: Texas Woman Tests Positive For COVID-19 Twice
Jun 18, 2020
Meredith McKee shared via her Facebook account on how she got infected with COVID-19 for the second time in 12 weeks. She was initially diagnosed with the coronavirus in February and managed to defeat it while at home. After she was found to be positive for the strain, she donated her plasma twice to help fight the dreaded coronavirus. She found herself dealing with the virus again after her blood pressure spiked last Friday.

"For the SECOND time in 12 weeks, I have contracted Covid19. Yes, you can get it again & it hit me like a ton of bricks...again. I’m here to tell you this is NOT over, it is very real & nothing to be flippant about," according to her post on Facebook.

"There are so many unknowns & the CDC cannot tell whether the virus was dormant all this time or if it was a new contraction. It is very different this time but no less horrendous. Plenty of tears & hurting. People, PLEASE take this seriously. ***I should add that I went to the hospital because my BP was 216/147 & I knew there was a serious problem. I had NO signs or symptoms otherwise."

In an interview with KXAS, McKee revealed how she dealt with dry cough that was pretty hard to bear. Though she contracted the virus for a second time, an epidemiologist from UT Southwestern claimed that getting the virus for a second time is rare but possible. It would be best to note that the expert is not connected to the case of McKee.

Apr. 29 2020
Risk of Coronavirus Reinfection Remains After Recovery
Study of endemic coronaviruses finds reinfections with the same coronavirus are not uncommon, provides useful reference for understanding repeat infection risk with SARS-CoV-2

New research by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health experts finds that reinfections with endemic coronaviruses are not uncommon, even within a year of prior infection. The study on the four endemic coronaviruses—not including SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19—found that when reinfection occurred, it was not associated with less severe symptoms. Instead, genetic factors may be a greater determinant of the severity of an infection. Individuals who were asymptomatic during their first infection did not experience symptoms during subsequent infections, and members of the same family reported similar symptom severity.

While the characteristics of immunity in COVID-19 survivors are still unknown, the immune response to the endemic coronaviruses studied (229E, OC43, NL63, and HKU1) could provide a useful reference for understanding the risk of repeat infection with SARS-CoV-2. Infections with the four endemic coronaviruses studied are common in the general population and usually produce mild or asymptomatic illness. Study results are published on the Columbia webpage of senior author Jeffrey Shaman, PhD, professor of environmental health sciences. The paper is currently under peer review.

Some governments have suggested that the detection of antibodies to the SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, could serve as the basis for an “immunity passport” or “risk-free certificate” that would enable individuals to travel or to return to work assuming that they are protected against re-infection. There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection.

To make matters even worse, a new layer of complexity has just been announced by Chinese authorities: a group of patients that had recovered from the virus tested positive again in follow-up controls.

A report by the health authority in China’s Guangdong province, the country’s most populated province with 113 million people, said that 14% of the patients that had recovered from the coronavirus showed new signs of it in later check-ups.

fritzelly wrote: »

Where are all these people getting reinfected?