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Re: Researchers in Hong Kong are reporting the first confirmed case of reinfection with the coronavirus.

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Mon, 24 Aug 20 3:32 PM | 14 view(s)
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The good news is that we do seem to get immunity for a period of time.

People have said that people who get the milder versions the first time around are more likely to get a second one. So as far as it goes, this doesn't falsify the theory.

The unknown is whether getting the virus a second time results in the same sort of nasty symptoms as the first in larger populations. For this one case, the second event was milder. If that's true in general, then people who have it twice won't be so bothered. Of course, they are carriers, so dangerous to others.

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Researchers in Hong Kong are reporting the first confirmed case of reinfection with the coronavirus.
By: clo in ALEA
Mon, 24 Aug 20 3:12 PM 		Msg. 38217 of 54959

Researchers in Hong Kong are reporting the first confirmed case of reinfection with the coronavirus.

“An apparently young and healthy patient had a second case of Covid-19 infection which was diagnosed 4.5 months after the first episode,” University of Hong Kong researchers said Monday in a statement.

The report is of concern because it suggests that immunity to the coronavirus may last only a few months in some people. And it has implications for vaccines being developed for the virus.

The 33-year-old man had only mild symptoms the first time, and no symptoms this time around. The reinfection was discovered when he returned from a trip to Spain, the researchers said, and the virus they sequenced closely matched the strain circulating in Europe in July and August.
http://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/world/covid-19-coronavirus.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20200824&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=cta®i_id=16112385&segment_id=36816&user_id=75ee940ebe2fd3e9d0a6bb93cf283302#link-6d6b8cdd

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