Posted on 02/10/2021 7:33:19 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Having COVID-19 may not protect against getting infected again with some of the new variants. People also can get second infections with earlier versions of the coronavirus if they mounted a weak defense the first time, new research suggests.
How long immunity lasts from natural infection is one of the big questions in the pandemic. Scientists still think reinfections are fairly rare and usually less serious than initial ones, but recent developments around the world have raised more uncertainty.
In South Africa, a vaccine study found new infections with a variant in 2 percent of people who previously had an earlier version of the virus.
In Brazil, several similar cases were documented with a new variant there. Researchers are exploring whether reinfections help explain a recent surge in the city of Manaus, where three-fourths of residents were thought to have been previously infected.
In the United States, a study found that 10 percent of Marine recruits who had evidence of prior infection and repeatedly tested negative before starting basic training were later infected again. That work was done before the new variants began to spread, said one study leader, Dr. Stuart Sealfon of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.
“Previous infection does not give you a free pass,” he said. “A substantial risk of reinfection remains.”
Doctors in South Africa saw a surge of cases late last year in areas where blood tests suggested many people had already had the virus.
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Until recently, all indications were “that previous infection confers protection for at least nine months,” so a second wave should have been “relatively subdued,” said Dr. Shabir Madhi of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
Scientists discovered a new version of the virus that’s more contagious and less susceptible to certain treatments. It now causes more than 90 percent of new cases in South Africa and has spread to 40 countries including the United States.
Madhi led a study testing Novavax’s vaccine and found it less effective against the new variant. The study also revealed that infections with the new variant were just as common among people who had COVID-19 as those who had not.
“What this basically tells us, unfortunately, is that past infection with early variants of the virus in South Africa does not protect” against the new one, he said.
Great, more fear porn.
Look at worldometer. South Africa
They are on a significant downtrend. So it appears that the virus simply is not raging. Oh — and the UK Variant disaster — same thing, UK has much less cases than a month ago
All of this is pure BS in hope of extending control.
This is called hand waving. It’s Carp.
Maybe they can explain why UK positives are declining even with this new supposedly more contagious form. Same with Fla. WH says new strain is widespread in Fla., yet positive test results are down.
BS.
Then why do the hospitals want my antibody blood do bad?
RE: Then why do the hospitals want my antibody blood do bad?
I don’t know, to help against the ORIGINAL strain?
No it doesn’t. I’ll put myself in a room with an infected for $500,000. No fear.
Fine print: I get royalties of 3% off of any biotech developments from my samples.
So you’re saying this is more fear and control porn?
Hope so as I suffer the side effects of my 2nd vaccine today! Better work against all the mutations!
Seriously, science has been dumbed down along with the public who are ignorant of first principles. The vaccination clinic gave me a handout stating I should continue to be on lockdown even after the requisite 10 days pass! No information given about waiting x days before immunity is set in stone or t cells, instead wear masks, distance from people, etc. because you never know...maybe you’re going to get covid anyway! This is voodooism, not science!
Or...perhaps they had a false-positive test the first time.
People don’t understand that the Chinese virus is a laboratory created virus.
It was designed to mutate rapidly and spread.
This was no accidental release.
This is Biological World War III created and perpetrated by China.
The virus may mutate in its contagious nature, but the basic protein that makes up the Protein Spike does not. For it to change, would compromise its function. This is why the vaccines target the use of that protein in the Messenger RNA.
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