Posted on 03/15/2020 9:01:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
A sequel to a movie that you didn’t want to see in the first place is one thing, like Ghost Rider 2 after Ghost Rider. A sequel to having a COVID-19 infection would be something completely different.
You may think that the one “positive” of testing positive for the COVID-19 causing coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) and surviving would be that you won’t get infected by that virus again. At least not during this pandemic. Ah, but is this assumption really true? Will you indeed be immune to the SARS-CoV2 after you’ve recovered from a COVID-19 infection? Some reports out of Japan and China seem to suggest otherwise.
For example, Daniel Leussink and Rocky Swift reported for Reuters about a female tour bus guide in Japan who tested positive for the virus after recovering from a COVID-19 infection. Here is a UNTV news report on the case:
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Does this case actually prove that re-infection with the virus is possible? Or was this just a mistake in the testing? Or did the person have a particularly weak immune system so that she couldn’t generate immunity? After all, one case can be an accident, an aberration, an anomaly, an aardvark in a sea of anemone.
Well, oops something like this happened again, according to a more recent NHK-World Japan report. This time it was a man in his 70’s, who first tested positive for SARS-CoV2 on February 14 while on a Diamond Princess cruise ship. After being transferred to a medical facility in Tokyo, he stayed there until testing negative for the virus. On March 2, he left the facility and traveled home via public transportation. However, the man eventually began feeling sick with a fever, which prompted him to go to a hospital on March 13.
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When it comes to the flu, I don’t think anything is absolute. If you get a flu shot, it doesn’t guarantee you wont get the flu. It just makes it harder to get it.
What to make of reports that patients who recovered re-tested positive later?
FROM THE HILL:
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Scientists agree reinfection is an unlikely explanation for patients who test positive a second time, according to the Los Angeles Times, and note the possibility that testing errors, and releasing patients from hospitals too prematurely, are more likely the reason for reports of patients who retest positive.
“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.”
Fukuda told the paper that it’s more likely patients are being released from hospitals while carrying dormant fragments of the disease that are not infectious, but resemble the virus when tested.
“The test may be positive, but the infection is not there,” he said.
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.”
[[If you get a flu shot, it doesn’t guarantee you wont get the flu. It just makes it harder to get it.]]
Folks can still get the flu but it won’t be nearly as bad and won’t last as long-
Sneaky little critter, this Wuhan Flu bug.
Almost diabolical.
Totally responsible, we can no longer just give the press a free pass to print what ever they want. They must be prosecuted for misinformation and pointlessly inciting panic. It is no different then screaming fire in a movie theater.
Not sure of what to make of this. Are they testing so called recovered patients before they go home? What’s the false negative percentage on the test?
Current estimates suggest that every American is highly susceptible to the virus until the economy free-falls, spawning a left-wing revolution.
Other indicators tell us that the virus may only have a devastating effect on our society until a democrat of some kind is elected.
In any case you can imagine infections and coverage thereof to be repetitive and aggressive until it is determined that sufficient people are miserable and impoverished and might thereby foment radical ‘wealth’ distribution i.e. joblessness, hunger, and misery.
Experts predict that once power is truly in the hands of a few social justice leaders, knowledge of further discontent will be fully quelled and worries will cease by force.
key data point would be if their virus was sequenced both infections - is it reinfection with a diff. strain or did they never get clear?
Apparently, the tests are not all that accurate. There are quite a few false positives and false negatives. That seems pretty standard for most of the tests for viruses.
It is also possible that governments are so anxious to calm everyone’s fears that they claim some people are cured when they are still sick.
It was designed that way.
Sounds like their plan.
“When it comes to the flu, I don’t think anything is absolute. If you get a flu shot, it doesn’t guarantee you wont get the flu. It just makes it harder to get it.”
The flu shot is just the best guess of preventing the most likely flu viruses. I think this year they said it was 48% effective which they thought was good. This article is total irresponsible fear mongering.
“Sneaky little critter, this Wuhan Flu bug.
It was designed that way.”
I doubt even the chicoms would design a virus they couldn’t control.
Kill all bugs. Use the silver ion !
I don’t think the tests are that accurate.
Can TDS ever be cured in any individual?
No backdoor?
How LBTGQ intolerant.
I agre with that statement to a degree..BUT, and yes there is always a “BUT” does the virus change?
Most other do, dont they?
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