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Can You Get Coronavirus Twice? How Long Are You Immune After COVID-19?
Forbes ^ | 03/15/2020 | Bruce Y. Lee

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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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; covid19; reinfection
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To: BipolarBob

Ya and the Reds are most likely saying to themselves. “We got us something that will take down the USA without a shot being fired.”

They dont give a rip. They can lose 100 million people and hardly blink.


21 posted on 03/15/2020 9:45:17 PM PDT by crz
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To: willk

That is rational.

But maybe....Sum Ting Wong


22 posted on 03/15/2020 9:50:23 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: JoSixChip; SeekAndFind
"This is pure fear mongering. In the environment we are in, if you can't state something like this as fact; YOU DON'T REPORT IT!"

No, you have it backwards. In an environment like this, you err on the side of caution. You don't have perfect information. You never will. If you wait for perfect information before taking action, you will be so far behind the curve you will never recover. You prepare for the worst case, and if you're wrong, then great!!!.

You certainly don't hide information just because you don't have 100% confidence it's a fact.

Censureship had a lot to do with how this mess got out of control in the first place.

23 posted on 03/15/2020 10:01:47 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: BenLurkin

Bigger question, WTF is up with WV?
[hope my 1 mile away proximity holds, too]

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html?te=1&nl=california-today&emc=edit_ca_20200312&campaign_id=49&instance_id=16682&segment_id=22136&regi_id=6812475220200312


25 posted on 03/15/2020 10:08:29 PM PDT by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: BenLurkin

Even MORE, hope my genetic connection to WV holds even better.


26 posted on 03/15/2020 10:09:47 PM PDT by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: SeekAndFind
Can You Get Coronavirus Twice? How Long Are You Immune After COVID-19?

I've heard a normal individual can get it up to 50x if they're not too old and die before it can repeatedly reemerge. Also I've heard one can develop chicken head syndrome and in some case victims can develop reptilian, scaly type skin with the affliction sustaining even after recovery. I think I saw a recovery victim in Walmart today. This lady had a real attitude with a slithering lizard like tongue.

27 posted on 03/15/2020 10:10:17 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

If no one has told you this yet, you should not go around licking toads.


28 posted on 03/15/2020 10:19:31 PM PDT by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: Salamander
That really IS interesting that West Virginia is the very last state in the nation to be infected by COVID-19. ;-)

Or is Alaska still untouched by it?

29 posted on 03/15/2020 10:22:19 PM PDT by nutmeg (Mega prayers for Rush Limbaugh)
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To: Salamander

I remember as a kid, one time I had a wart on my hand and always thought it was the gull darn bull frog I had. Btw, what is the difference between a frog and a toad?


30 posted on 03/15/2020 10:24:24 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: nutmeg

Alaska has it.


31 posted on 03/15/2020 10:51:16 PM PDT by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: RonnG; Bob434; willk
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.

Well first, this isn't a flu at all, it's a coronavirus. Same family as 15% of the common cold. Which, incidentally, shows that yes, you likely can be re-infected. Seeing as how people can catch the cold multiple times a year, some of those are certainly repeats of the same (common cold) coronavirus.

And the flu is a wide variety of different types (A, B, C, D) (H#,N#), and various strains within that. The flu shot generally covers 2-3 types of A-type viri, as well as the B flu. (If I remember correctly, C is so mild it's ignored, and D is non-human infecting.) But the A-type is very widespread, and it's just a wild-ass guess on what types will be the dominant strains that need vaccination for the upcoming flu season.
32 posted on 03/15/2020 10:51:21 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: Salamander

Wow. West Virginia gets the prize! Good for you. Hope WV stays COVID-19-free. :-)


33 posted on 03/15/2020 10:53:06 PM PDT by nutmeg (Mega prayers for Rush Limbaugh)
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To: dragnet2

You can safely lick frogs?

:D

https://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-frog-and-vs-toad/

Warts are viruses.
Nothing to do with toads.
/Huck Finn, notwithstanding


34 posted on 03/15/2020 10:54:13 PM PDT by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: nutmeg

I’m across the river in MD, barely a mile away but half of
my kin are WVians.

Hoping there’s something to that because I cannot afford to be sick or hospitalized.

Himself is useless at dog care.

:)


35 posted on 03/15/2020 10:56:54 PM PDT by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: nutmeg

Just shows that standing six feet from a meth head prevents cv, or that they dont know how to read the test or that marrying your sister created a genetic resistance to CV. Did I miss any jokes? Wait... They built an immunity after getting the Byrd flu.


36 posted on 03/15/2020 10:58:29 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( #wwg1wga #gin&tonic)
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To: CJ Wolf

The people of WV are some of the kindest in the country.


37 posted on 03/15/2020 11:03:29 PM PDT by Salamander (Living On The Ledge....)
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To: SeekAndFind
"“Because if this acts like any other virus, once you recover, you won’t get reinfected.” "

So once you catch a cold, you won't get a cold again?

38 posted on 03/15/2020 11:04:19 PM PDT by matthew fuller (Thank God our country now has a GREAT AMERICAN President !!!)
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To: Salamander
Himself is useless at dog care.

LOL!

39 posted on 03/15/2020 11:08:36 PM PDT by nutmeg (Mega prayers for Rush Limbaugh)
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To: CJ Wolf
I don't know about meth heads or marrying sisters. All I know about WV (I don't live there) is that Harper's Ferry is a cool place to visit, and that -- yes -- Robert KKK Byrd was a POS democRAT from WV, who is now dead.

A lot of great conservative patriots live in WV, too.

40 posted on 03/15/2020 11:11:36 PM PDT by nutmeg (Mega prayers for Rush Limbaugh)
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