[DEPcom]

Ok they are saying a lot people have been infected without showing no symptoms. Those people have antibodies indicating they had Coronavirus, if those test are correct.

"New York antibody study estimates 13.9% of residents "

I remember reading stories out of China stating reinfection are deadlier. People would fall over death twitting or hearth attack with the second infection.

Chinese doctors: Coronavirus can reinfect people, and the second infection can lead to heart failure

Whistleblower doctors say coronavirus reinfection even deadlier

Each infection damages your body. Is there a immunity?

A startling number of coronavirus patients get reinfected

[LilFarmer]

S. Korea’s reinfections appear to be mild. There are a couple of pages of articles about the reinfections here: https://flutrackers.com/forum/forum/welcome-to-the-scientific-library/immunity-aa/848428-covid-19-reinfections-thread-207-cases-in-south-korea-saying-not-highly-infectious

[ETCM]

It’s possible this isn’t even “live” virus, but virus RNA remaining in the body and causing the positive test. Let’s hope that’s the case. I heard of one case in SK where the relapsed person died, but that seems to be the exception.

But maybe the virus is living on in recovered patients. Considering the infection attacks so many organs, it shouldn’t be a surprise if there are viral reservoirs. If this IS active virus, that means it is coexisting with what are supposed to be neutralizing anti-bodies, and that could be a problem as antibodies fade. Or you pick something else up that your immune system has to fight, and CV19 is waiting to jump back in to action.

There is some evidence that the innate immune system response might be as or more important than the adaptive immune system. Maybe those taking supplements to boost their innate immune system have the right idea.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.13.20040980v2.full.pdf