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> unexplained and more importantly totally unproven. What do you mean unproven? There are reinfection cases with incredibly low latencies being reported all ov

> unexplained and more importantly totally unproven. What do you mean unproven? There are reinfection cases with incredibly low latencies being reported all over the globe. A handful of reports might be written off as misunderstandings or outliers but there are multiple reports per day from reputable sources. Reinfection is certainly a factor, the only question is by what mechanism. https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3048320/china-coronavirus-deadly-day-hubei-record-high-42-patients-die https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3048320/chin... https://twitter.com/OH_mes2/status/1233346594428186627 https://twitter.com/OH_mes2/status/1233346594428186627 > weak or old Does a 29 year old healthy male sound weak or old? https://twitter.com/lilkuo/status/1230699297508745217 https://twitter.com/lilkuo/status/1230699297508745217 > just following health organisations recommendations You mean like the CDC which is being actively dismantled while the president of the US goes on national TV and calls their messaging fake news? The health of every individual is ultimately in their own hands. Being informed of everything pertinent to their health including experimental last-ditch treatments is in everyone's interest. Don't look to authorities to babysit you through a pandemic, especially not in poor countries or USA. By hitting the downvote button on the grandparent comment, you're electing to censor it in some sort of misguided do-gooding effort, inspite of HN guidelines.

xorfish 7y ago
A false negative doesn't make a reinfection. There are going to be a lot of still positive people that test negative with a test that has a high enough false negative rate.
- missosoup 7y ago
  Patients only get retested after they appear to have recovered. That means their symptoms have subsided. You can get super pedantic with semantics and call it a false negative, which might be technically true if the virus subsides but has the ability to persist - which is one of the potential mechanisms for reinfection, but has not been confirmed. But none of that changes the fact that people are getting reinfected and sometimes dropping dead after appearing to have recovered by all measures. This is clearly different to 'it's just the flu bro'.
lm28469 7y ago
> What do you mean unproven? I haven't seen any serious source talking about reinfections. > Does a 29 year old healthy male sound weak or old? You're statistically very very very very unlikely to die of it if you're young and healthy, just like the regular flu, but of course some people will still die from it, just like some people get cancer at 20. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se... > The health of every individual is ultimately in their own hands. Then go ahead and tell people to inject random chemicals in their body, if you don't have the honesty to lay out all the facts people like us will lay them out for you. > By hitting the downvote button on the grandparent comment, I probably up/downvoted less than 5 comments in my life, and you're not one of them.

xorfish 7y ago

A false negative doesn't make a reinfection. There are going to be a lot of still positive people that test negative with a test that has a high enough false negative rate.

missosoup 7y ago
Patients only get retested after they appear to have recovered. That means their symptoms have subsided. You can get super pedantic with semantics and call it a false negative, which might be technically true if the virus subsides but has the ability to persist - which is one of the potential mechanisms for reinfection, but has not been confirmed. But none of that changes the fact that people are getting reinfected and sometimes dropping dead after appearing to have recovered by all measures. This is clearly different to 'it's just the flu bro'.

lm28469 7y ago

> What do you mean unproven? I haven't seen any serious source talking about reinfections. > Does a 29 year old healthy male sound weak or old? You're statistically very very very very unlikely to die of it if you're young and healthy, just like the regular flu, but of course some people will still die from it, just like some people get cancer at 20. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-se... > The health of every individual is ultimately in their own hands. Then go ahead and tell people to inject random chemicals in their body, if you don't have the honesty to lay out all the facts people like us will lay them out for you. > By hitting the downvote button on the grandparent comment, I probably up/downvoted less than 5 comments in my life, and you're not one of them.