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It seems you're moving the goalposts though. Your initial statement was that there were zero confirmed cases of reinfected individuals. The commentator gave you

It seems you're moving the goalposts though. Your initial statement was that there were zero confirmed cases of reinfected individuals. The commentator gave you an example of such a case (and I can give you an another with the thoughts of a doctor [1]), then you moved back and said 'if it was anything more than exceptionally rare'. At the very least can you maintain your argument? More dangerously could be the situation in which those that are asymptomatic initially end up with shorter duration immunity than those that have symptoms. Which would toss out a lot of our understanding of how severe the virus could end up being out the door. [1] https://www.vox.com/2020/7/12/21321653/getting-covid-19-twice-reinfection-antibody-herd-immunity https://www.vox.com/2020/7/12/21321653/getting-covid-19-twic...

makomk 6y ago
The positive, negative, positive cases are almost certainly testing artifacts rather than reinfections though - they all seem to involve someone who was infected testing positive after a relatively short time period, and researchers in countries like South Korea have found that the patients don't seem to have any viable virus or be able to infect others when they test positive for the second time: https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-southkorea-explain/explainer-south-korean-findings-suggest-reinfected-coronavirus-cases-are-false-positives-idUKKBN22J0HR https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-southko... As far as I know, their original claim is still true: there are zero confirmed reinfections with Covid-19.
standardUser 6y ago
I maintain that there is no peer-reviewed research proving that an individual can become infected after recovering from COVID-19. There are only scattered media reports. However, I am not claiming it is strictly impossible. That has not been proven either. But at this point, we could only assume it is extremely rare, at least within a 5-6 month window.

makomk 6y ago

The positive, negative, positive cases are almost certainly testing artifacts rather than reinfections though - they all seem to involve someone who was infected testing positive after a relatively short time period, and researchers in countries like South Korea have found that the patients don't seem to have any viable virus or be able to infect others when they test positive for the second time: https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-southkorea-explain/explainer-south-korean-findings-suggest-reinfected-coronavirus-cases-are-false-positives-idUKKBN22J0HR https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-southko... As far as I know, their original claim is still true: there are zero confirmed reinfections with Covid-19.

standardUser 6y ago

I maintain that there is no peer-reviewed research proving that an individual can become infected after recovering from COVID-19. There are only scattered media reports. However, I am not claiming it is strictly impossible. That has not been proven either. But at this point, we could only assume it is extremely rare, at least within a 5-6 month window.