First confirmed case of someone being reinfected with the Coronavirus

[crimson5pheonix]

First Confirmed Coronavirus Reinfection Raises Immunity Concerns

Researchers in Hong Kong say 33-year-old-man is asymptomatic; immunologists call case 'no cause for alarm.'

www.commondreams.org

A Hong Kong man got the virus in March and has been confirmed to have the virus again. Though at least he's asymptomatic, though he could still spread it.

 

[Iron]

Are you sure this is the first? I could swear the saw this headline like twenty different times in the past.
Anyways. This stuff isn't one virus, so he could have been infected with a different strain. Blood-testing shows that corona antibodies fizzle out after 3 months. This shit is like SARS. It will go away in two years.

 

[lil devils x]

Yea, it isn't the first. They had a guy here in June in Dallas who was hospitalized in February and then got well and then was hospitalized AGAIN with COVID-19 in Dallas again in June. I had posted on that in the pandemic thread a while back, but I am not digging for it again. They have been reporting this issue for a while now. Like Iron said, it seems people can be reinfected again after 3 months. Though I do not expect it to go away in 2 years, I expect we will need vaccines to get rid of it.

 

[Agema]

First Confirmed Coronavirus Reinfection Raises Immunity Concerns

Researchers in Hong Kong say 33-year-old-man is asymptomatic; immunologists call case 'no cause for alarm.'

www.commondreams.org

A Hong Kong man got the virus in March and has been confirmed to have the virus again. Though at least he's asymptomatic, though he could still spread it.

There have been I think actually quite a few cases of reinfection - my wife knows of someone in the hospital she works in who caught it in April, and then again a week or two back.

 

[CaitSeith]

It seems the reinfection caused less severe symptoms than the first infection. That's good news and bad news.

 

[lil devils x]

It seems the reinfection caused less severe symptoms than the first infection. That's good news and bad news.

From my understanding, it often depends on what happened during the initial infection. If they were really ill the first time, it seems to be more mild the next time and vice versa depending on your susceptibility. If they didn't get very sick the first time due to only being exposed to a small amount of the virus, they may not have produced enough of an immune response to provide immunity, thus you can still become severely ill if exposed to enough of the virus. This is also impacted by their viral load.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30354-4/fulltext

 

[Worgen]

Welp, I was fine never leaving the house again anyway.

 

[Phoenixmgs]

All the research and data points to long lasting immunity. SARS-COV-1 immunity lasts at least 17+ years and also grants immunity to SARS-COV-2. The immune system doesn't instantly kill the virus if it finds its way back into the body. Finding the virus RNA (positive test result) and the virus actually making you sick again are 2 completely different things.


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Also, the death rate from the virus has dropped massively since the initial wave.

 

[Phoenixmgs]