[Lady Heron]

Inside China the numbers infected and serious condition have overrun the healthcare systems ability to take care of them in the citifies where the infected numbers are high, equipment and care provider wise.

This virus is a numbers game. You want to be in the first batch to get it if you must get it because as it exponentially spreads the less likely your are going to get the care you need if you become critical.

One other problem I heard tonight is that the people who get the virus can get it again as their bodies did not create an immunity to it after they had it the first time. Isn't that special.

[LilFarmer]

I’ve often thought if I have to get a pandemic virus, I’d rather be one of the first, before healthcare is overwhelmed, or one of the last, when they may have a cure 🙂

[steve86]

“One other problem I heard tonight is that the people who get the virus can get it again as their bodies did not create an immunity to it after they had it the first time. Isn’t that special.”

In general*, antibodies are going to be produced in response to the first infection. This will give partial or full immunity to a second infection by the same virus, by neutralizing it. But in reality the coronavirus mutates so quickly that the second virus is different from the first. Different enough that the antibodies no longer match, resulting in a second infection. Similar to a common cold infection: The virus is always a little different from the last time. *Reports of some who seem to have no immune response at all, and if true these individuals would produce no antibodies.