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.”
Sneaky little critter, this Wuhan Flu bug.
Almost diabolical.
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?
I don’t think the tests are that accurate.
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.
This is an interesting article, but it fails to address another possibility. What if, once you are infected and ‘recover,’ the virus never leaves you but takes up residence in your body, i.e., nerve ganglion, to reappear again at a later date? Chicken pox is an example of once infected, always infected. If a mad chemist were to engineer a virus, it seems this ‘enhancement’ would be high on the list. I have run into some individuals reporting who suggest the Wuhan virus brings with it, at least in some cases, nerve damage, which is clearly what happens with the reemergence of the chicken pox virus in the event known as shingles. I have also hear that the second bout of Wuhan may be more severe than the first, which is reminiscent of the chicken pox/shingles event. Bottom line: no one should celebrate having contracted and ‘survived’ the Wuhan virus because there may be unknown later adverse consequences associated with the virus.
There are 2 Covid 19 strains: The L strain which is the more virulent and lethal strain and the S strain which is milder. I don’t know if screen tests differentiate between the 2. It is conceivable that reinfection occurs with different strains, although this is conjecture on my part.