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Q: "Can you get Coronavirus twice?" A: “If you get an infection, your immune system is revved up against that virus,” Keiji Fukuda, director of Hong Kong Unive
by mrandish 7y ago
Q: "Can you get Coronavirus twice?"
A: “If you get an infection, your immune system is revved up against that virus,” Keiji Fukuda, director of Hong Kong University’s School of Public Health, told the Los Angeles Times. “To get reinfected again when you’re in that situation would be quite unusual unless your immune system was not functioning right.”
https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/487436-can-you-get-coronavirus-twice https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c...
* In a hearing before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Thursday, Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, was asked if people who have contracted the virus might now be immune.
“We haven’t formally proved it, but it is strongly likely that that’s the case,” Fauci said. “Because if this acts like any other virus, once you recover, you won’t get reinfected.”
https://www.c-span.org/video/?470277-1/federal-health-officials-testify-coronavirus-outbreak-response https://www.c-span.org/video/?470277-1/federal-health-offici...
* From the paper: "Antibody responses to SARS-CoV-2 in COVID-19 patients."
"The positive rate for IgG reached 100% around 20 days after symptoms onset. The median day of seroconversion for both lgG and IgM was 13 days after symptoms onset. Seroconversion of IgM occurred at the same time, or earlier, or later than that of IgG. IgG levels in 100% patients (19/19) entered a platform within 6 days after seroconversion."
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.18.20038018v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.18.20038018v...
Study - Reinfection could not occur in SARS-CoV-2 infected rhesus macaques. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.13.990226v1 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.13.990226v1