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Cases of reinfection with COVID are being reported
Nevada case reported in the Lancet, along with three others
One of the key questions in predicting the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is how well and how long the immune responses protect the host from reinfection. For some viruses, the first infection can provide lifelong immunity; for seasonal coronaviruses, protective immunity is short-lived.1In The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Richard L Tillett and colleagues describe the first confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 reinfection in the USA.
2 A 25-year-old man from the US state of Nevada, who had no known immune disorders, had PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in April, 2020 (cycle threshold [Ct] value 35·24; specimen A). He recovered in quarantine, testing negative by RT-PCR at two consecutive timepoints thereafter. However, 48 days after the initial test, the patient tested positive again by RT-PCR (Ct value 35·31; specimen B). Viral genome sequencing showed that both specimens A and B belonged to clade 20C, a predominant clade seen in northern Nevada. However, the genome sequences of isolates from the first infection (specimen A) and reinfection (specimen B) differed significantly, making the chance of the virus being from the same infection small. What is worrisome is that SARS-CoV-2 reinfection resulted in worse disease than did the first infection, requiring oxygen support and hospitalisation. The patient had positive antibodies after the reinfection, but whether he had pre-existing antibody after the first infection is unknown.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30783-0/fulltext
An 89-year old Dutch woman died after reinfection. The article from Daily Beast suggests 23 reinfections
COVID-19 has a low reinfection rate, according to the Oxford researchers, who say just 23 cases of confirmed reinfection have been reported worldwide. In all previous reinfections, the patients all survived.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/woman-89-becomes-first-to-die-after-getting-covid-twice?ref=home
Someone needs to transmit the information to Donald
Donald Trump claims Covid immunity and offers to kiss crowd at rally
https://www.ft.com/content/1ba9c17e-656a-49fc-8fdf-2f8f82b67454
Comments
by artappraiser on Tue, 10/13/2020 - 8:13pm
Hefty Covid death undercount (thread)
by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 10/14/2020 - 3:03pm
Melania Trump's officiall statement:
by artappraiser on Thu, 10/15/2020 - 12:00am
Who know what's true. The White House is like a trailer park now, bunch of meth freaks, bikers and hangers-on.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 10/15/2020 - 2:04am