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This is for common coronavirus but something very important must be remembered: The reinfection is not the same. The first time you face a new virus, you don't
by pritovido 6y ago
This is for common coronavirus but something very important must be remembered: The reinfection is not the same.
The first time you face a new virus, you don't have antibodies. You also have no information to generate them. Generating this information takes a long time, which is dangerous.
If you reinfect again after 12 months, you don't have antibodies, but there are cells that contain the information to regenerate the antibodies much faster than the first time you faced the virus.
So reinfection is not as dangerous as the first time.
- war1025 6y ago> The reinfection is not the same As a parent of young kids who manages to catch the stomach flu at least once a year from them, this is something I've come to appreciate a ton. The first time we caught it after neither me nor my wife having caught such a thing for over a decade, it knocked us out for two days. Just completely miserable. Now, four years and half a dozen rounds later, it's still terrible, but only lasts twelve hours or so. Gotta love the immune system.
- heavyset_go 6y agoSometimes that can backfire, and infection can trigger a deleterious immune response, or a severe reaction upon reinfection.