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I totally agree with your "wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy" - this is probably the worst pneumonia-flu-like sickness I went (still going?) through. I am no

by tandr 7y ago

I totally agree with your "wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy" - this is probably the worst pneumonia-flu-like sickness I went (still going?) through. I am now convinced that if I will catch it (or some mutated off-spring of this) again, I might not make it. Looks like I got it too about 3 or 4 weeks ago. No cough, no fewer, just a growing chest pain. Went to doctor back then, he prescribed antibiotics against pneumonia, and send me home. Thing that really scared me was (is) constant mild trouble breathing. It is hard to walk any distance and you have to catch wind after walking upstairs - never happened to me before. As you described "ups" and "downs" - you kind of feel ok for a day or so, and then boom, feeling like walking dead again. Worst part (to me) is that I cannot for the life of me (no pun intended) to explain this to my SO - she thinks once you got sick and got better, everything else is bs and "you just don't want to leave the house" etc. Better is forever, right? I would like to wish you (and all of us) best of luck and as much recovery as you can get. Take care.

jacquesm 7y ago
You too, hang in there.
- tandr 7y ago
  Thank you, I am trying my best :)
koheripbal 7y ago
Covid-19 is a type of virus that does not mutate much at all. It has error correction in replication. Across all the variants found globally so far, there have only been changes to 20 base pairs - most of which (possibly all) do absolutely nothing. Your immunity will likely make any re-infection much much lighter - even many years from now. Interestingly, Coronaviruses generally, can still re-infect you even after you've developed immunity (or been vaccinated) - albeit to a much lesser extent. It's one advantage they have over influenza, and why they can get away with error correction.
- handsomechad 7y ago
  can you, or someone who understands this, explain to the layperson what this means. the last sentence in particular, what does reinfection have to do with error correction (what is error correction (assuming it has to do with the genome)?) why is that an advantage over influenza?
  - jacquesm 7y ago
    Because without error correction the mutation rate goes way up which might get you to squeak by an already alerted immune system and achieve reinfection. That's why you get new strains of the flu all the time. Error correction means that the genome will be very close to the one observed the previous time, so if you want to re-infect you need the immunity to last relatively short or be less than perfect. That secondary (or even later) infection would normally go unnoticed though.

by tandr 7y ago

jacquesm 7y ago

You too, hang in there.

tandr 7y ago
Thank you, I am trying my best :)

koheripbal 7y ago

Covid-19 is a type of virus that does not mutate much at all. It has error correction in replication. Across all the variants found globally so far, there have only been changes to 20 base pairs - most of which (possibly all) do absolutely nothing. Your immunity will likely make any re-infection much much lighter - even many years from now. Interestingly, Coronaviruses generally, can still re-infect you even after you've developed immunity (or been vaccinated) - albeit to a much lesser extent. It's one advantage they have over influenza, and why they can get away with error correction.

handsomechad 7y ago
can you, or someone who understands this, explain to the layperson what this means. the last sentence in particular, what does reinfection have to do with error correction (what is error correction (assuming it has to do with the genome)?) why is that an advantage over influenza?
- jacquesm 7y ago
  Because without error correction the mutation rate goes way up which might get you to squeak by an already alerted immune system and achieve reinfection. That's why you get new strains of the flu all the time. Error correction means that the genome will be very close to the one observed the previous time, so if you want to re-infect you need the immunity to last relatively short or be less than perfect. That secondary (or even later) infection would normally go unnoticed though.