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Can You Be Re-Infected After Recovering From Coronavirus? Here's What We Know About COVID-19 Immunity
Time ^ | APRIL 3, 2020 | HILLARY LEUNG

Posted on 04/03/2020 7:15:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Troubling headlines have been cropping up across Asia: Some patients in China, Japan and South Korea who were diagnosed with COVID-19 and seemingly recovered have been readmitted to the hospital after testing positive for the virus again.

Because SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19, was only discovered a few months ago, scientists are still trying to answer many big questions related to the virus and the disease it causes. Among them is whether patients can be reinfected by the virus after they seem to recover from the symptoms.

With other coronavirus strains, experts say the antibodies that patients produce during infection give them immunity to the specific virus for months or even years, but researchers are still figuring out if and how that works with COVID-19.

The answer has huge implications for the spread of the disease, since researchers believe it will continue to crash across the world in waves, hitting the same country multiple times.

Can you get re-infected after recovering from COVID-19?

There remains a lot of uncertainty, but experts TIME spoke with say that it’s likely the reports of patients who seemed to have recovered but then tested positive again were not examples of re-infection, but were cases where lingering infection was not detected by tests for a period of time.

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As Coronavirus Spreads, Washington's $1 Billion Aid Cut Couldn't Have Come At a Worse Time for Afghanistan Experts say the body’s antibody response, triggered by the onset of a virus, means it is unlikely that patients who have recovered from COVID-19 can get re-infected so soon after contracting the virus. Antibodies are normally produced in a patient’s body around seven to 10 days after the

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TOPICS: Education; Health/Medicine; Science
KEYWORDS: chinavirusimmunity; chinavirusinfo; coronavirus; covid19; herdimmunity; hillaryleung; immunity; notthisagain; time; virus
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1 posted on 04/03/2020 7:15:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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no.

What happens is it mutates into the Coorsavirus.

If you survive that mutation, months later it appears again as the Budovirus.

Unless you get the foreign mutation. Then you get the StellaArtoisavirus


2 posted on 04/03/2020 7:20:11 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: dp0622

I’d get stuck at Labattvirus….


3 posted on 04/03/2020 7:22:40 PM PDT by heshtesh
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To: nickcarraway

A cold is a virus. how many colds have you had in your life. one?


4 posted on 04/03/2020 7:24:01 PM PDT by Ikeon (Nothing happens in politics "by chance" . covid -19 is a drill.)
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To: nickcarraway

I frankly am tired of these articles. Where the heck is the real proof of these claims they have put out there for awhile now. Seems to me just a ploy to extend this hoax beyond elections to institute mail in voting. And we all know what those results will be.


5 posted on 04/03/2020 7:27:07 PM PDT by carikadon (Don't mess with Texas)
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To: Ikeon

“A cold is a virus. how many colds have you had in your life. one?”

Yes, but you don’t catch the same cold virus.


6 posted on 04/03/2020 7:29:25 PM PDT by willk (A bias news media is not a free press.)
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To: carikadon

the Headlines have a purpose. Feed the hysteria and keep the country shut down.


7 posted on 04/03/2020 7:35:07 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: willk

i believe that someone mentioned the corona virus would mutate. I believe you wont catch the same virus again. it will be a new strain. and otherd have mentioned it there were 5-10 strains of covid -19 going around right now. Im not a doctor but I watched a you tube video once.


8 posted on 04/03/2020 7:37:07 PM PDT by Ikeon (Nothing happens in politics "by chance" . covid -19 is a drill.)
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RE: Can You Be Re-Infected After Recovering From Coronavirus?

If the anwser to this question is ‘YES’ (NOTE THE *IF*), then we can all forget about Plasma therapy and attempts to test for antibodies in other to see who is immune that scientists have been studying.


9 posted on 04/03/2020 7:37:12 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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RE: i believe that someone mentioned the corona virus would mutate. I believe you wont catch the same virus again. it will be a new strain

Yes,but the mutations invariably WEAKEN the new strain compared to the original. See this article from POPULAR SCIENCE:

https://www.popsci.com/story/health/covid-19-coronavirus-mutates-changes/

TITLE: Yes, the new coronavirus is mutating—but that’s not a bad thing


10 posted on 04/03/2020 7:38:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: nickcarraway

See here:

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/contracting-the-new-coronavirus-may-protect-against-future-re-infections

TITLE: Contracting the new Coronavirus may protect against future reinfection


11 posted on 04/03/2020 7:40:32 PM PDT by SeekAndFind (look at Michigan, it will)
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To: nickcarraway

Good post. My biggest concern as an amateur observer is that people will be told they are OK to re-enter society too soon. The body will fight off the infection, but we don’t really know when that person is truly non-contagious. They may have immunity to re-infection but could still spread the disease to others unwittingly because the tests are not sensitive enough to detect small viral loads or give a false negative.

When I heard that Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson were seen going around town the other day, it really made me wonder. I am glad they are on the mend but I am not convinced that this two week period is sufficient to be safe for others. We don’t know enough about the disease or the tests.


12 posted on 04/03/2020 7:43:12 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: dp0622

Guinessvirus is supposed to be very strong.


13 posted on 04/03/2020 7:44:22 PM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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LOL

I heard it knocks you on your feet!!

And a common side effect if it gets too bad is that unattractive women start to look beautiful!


14 posted on 04/03/2020 7:49:44 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: gibsonguy

Of course. Shocking how many people in the freest and strongest country in the world are buying in to this. I am older. I won’t be here to see the evil and destruction. My heart breaks for the naive generations to follow.


15 posted on 04/03/2020 7:51:40 PM PDT by carikadon (Don't mess with Texas)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s been reported that some of these tests only have an accuracy level of around sixty percent. Perhaps these reports of reinfected individuals are due to faulty tests?


16 posted on 04/03/2020 7:52:46 PM PDT by DugwayDuke ("A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest")
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17 posted on 04/03/2020 7:52:57 PM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: Cvengr

lol

And then you go to their apartment while she’s still gorgeous and then the alcohol wears off...and then you’re like “what did i do??”

Not that it ever happened to me!!


18 posted on 04/03/2020 7:56:50 PM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists dont point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: nickcarraway

From the article:

“...experts TIME spoke with say that it’s likely the reports of patients who seemed to have recovered but then tested positive again were not examples of re-infection, but were cases where lingering infection was not detected by tests for a period of time.
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Experts say the body’s antibody response, triggered by the onset of a virus, means it is unlikely that patients who have recovered from COVID-19 can get re-infected so soon after contracting the virus. Antibodies are normally produced in a patient’s body around seven to 10 days after the initial onset of a virus, says Vineet Menachery, a virologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch.
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There hasn’t been enough time to research COVID-19 in order to determine whether patients who recover from COVID-19 are immune to the disease—and if so, how long the immunity will last. However, preliminary studies provide some clues. For example, one study conducted by Chinese researchers (which has not yet been peer-reviewed) found that antibodies in rhesus monkeys kept primates that had recovered from COVID-19 from becoming infected again upon exposure to the virus.


19 posted on 04/03/2020 8:22:36 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: nickcarraway

I heard a Dr recently say that the antibodies probably protect people for 6mos up to a year. So if accurate, it would leave those infected now vulnerable to another bout in the Fall, if it reappears.


20 posted on 04/03/2020 8:40:57 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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