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Is that within the margin of error for false positive tests? IOW, maybe the 1 in 1000 didn’t actually have COVID the first/second time?
by jader201 5y ago
Is that within the margin of error for false positive tests? IOW, maybe the 1 in 1000 didn’t actually have COVID the first/second time?
- yannikyeo 5y agoReinfection is not rare, Singapore has detected 26 cases of reinfection so far: https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/parliament-26-cases-of-covid-19-reinfection-detected-in-singapore https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/politics/parliament-2... Also note worthy: recent infections in Singapore includes "56 cases involving people who were infected despite being fully vaccinated"
- breck 5y agoReinfection is very rare. The Israeli study is the most reliable, but going by your data point of 26 cases of reinfection and the ~61,000 cases[0] in Singapore, we're talking 1 in 2,500. 0 https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&time=2020-03-01..latest&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&Metric=Confirmed+cases&Interval=Cumulative&Relative+to+Population=false&Align+outbreaks=false&country=~SGP https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
- StavrosK 5y agoBut that statistic is useless on its own. The more salient statistic is "how much lower was the infection rate among people who have recovered, compared to people who had never had COVID, for the same time frame?".