Reno, NV man reinfected with COVID-19
08-29-2020, 08:08 AM
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Reno, NV man reinfected with COVID-19
https://news.yahoo.com/covid-19-rein...154615241.html
25 yr old man, originally infected in mid-April. Reinfected in late May with a slightly different strain of COVID-19. 2nd time was much worse. Luckily this is a very rare occurrence and they say usually the 2nd infection isn't nearly as bad as the 1st. This case was a rare exception.
25 yr old man, originally infected in mid-April. Reinfected in late May with a slightly different strain of COVID-19. 2nd time was much worse. Luckily this is a very rare occurrence and they say usually the 2nd infection isn't nearly as bad as the 1st. This case was a rare exception.
08-29-2020, 08:11 AM
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Originally Posted by AirBear
https://news.yahoo.com/covid-19-rein...154615241.html
25 yr old man, originally infected in mid-April. Reinfected in late May with a slightly different strain of COVID-19. 2nd time was much worse. Luckily this is a very rare occurrence and they say usually the 2nd infection isn't nearly as bad as the 1st. This case was a rare exception.
25 yr old man, originally infected in mid-April. Reinfected in late May with a slightly different strain of COVID-19. 2nd time was much worse. Luckily this is a very rare occurrence and they say usually the 2nd infection isn't nearly as bad as the 1st. This case was a rare exception.
08-29-2020, 08:15 AM
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Originally Posted by AirBear
https://news.yahoo.com/covid-19-rein...154615241.html
25 yr old man, originally infected in mid-April. Reinfected in late May with a slightly different strain of COVID-19. 2nd time was much worse. Luckily this is a very rare occurrence and they say usually the 2nd infection isn't nearly as bad as the 1st. This case was a rare exception.
25 yr old man, originally infected in mid-April. Reinfected in late May with a slightly different strain of COVID-19. 2nd time was much worse. Luckily this is a very rare occurrence and they say usually the 2nd infection isn't nearly as bad as the 1st. This case was a rare exception.
Depending on the virus natural immunity may last months, years, or a lifetime. Years is more typical.
08-29-2020, 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by AirBear
https://news.yahoo.com/covid-19-rein...154615241.html
25 yr old man, originally infected in mid-April. Reinfected in late May with a slightly different strain of COVID-19. 2nd time was much worse. Luckily this is a very rare occurrence and they say usually the 2nd infection isn't nearly as bad as the 1st. This case was a rare exception.
25 yr old man, originally infected in mid-April. Reinfected in late May with a slightly different strain of COVID-19. 2nd time was much worse. Luckily this is a very rare occurrence and they say usually the 2nd infection isn't nearly as bad as the 1st. This case was a rare exception.
08-31-2020, 05:47 AM
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Originally Posted by captjns
Not the first and certainly not the last. Recurrences happening, unfortunately, across the globe.
This is only one of like 4 they can show is an actual reinfection. The PCR test can toggle between positive and negative for a months after you are sick.
the bigger thing is he was worse the second time which is generally unusual with viruses.
08-31-2020, 05:55 AM
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Not a reinfection. First case was false positive. See FDA warning about the testing equipment used. Have to spin the sample in the 'fuge at the proper speed. This is happening all over the world and is being falsely reported. These are not reinfections.
FDA link:
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/...etter-clinical
FDA link:
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/...etter-clinical
08-31-2020, 06:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Phins2right
Not a reinfection. First case was false positive. See FDA warning about the testing equipment used. Have to spin the sample in the 'fuge at the proper speed. This is happening all over the world and is being falsely reported. These are not reinfections.
FDA link:
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/...etter-clinical
FDA link:
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/...etter-clinical
Yeah they genetically sequenced both samples. So they know he had a COVID the first time. The only one question I have seen raised and only by a few Drs is if the mutations could have occurred in host. Either way even if he were reinfected twice it’s not something that would be surprising or scary with a n=1. The other three they have found were all mild cases the second time around which indicates their immune systems worked fine.
08-31-2020, 06:45 AM
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Originally Posted by Phins2right
Not a reinfection. First case was false positive. See FDA warning about the testing equipment used. Have to spin the sample in the 'fuge at the proper speed. This is happening all over the world and is being falsely reported. These are not reinfections.
FDA link:
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/...etter-clinical
FDA link:
https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/...etter-clinical
09-01-2020, 06:13 AM
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Originally Posted by rickair7777
Can happen with almost any virus. As you said, very rare to be re-infected so soon.
Depending on the virus natural immunity may last months, years, or a lifetime. Years is more typical.
Depending on the virus natural immunity may last months, years, or a lifetime. Years is more typical.
That doesn’t mean a longer duration of immunity isn’t possible with COVID-19, or that a COVID 19 vaccine with a good adjuvant to increase the effectiveness or duration wouldn’t give longer lasting immunity than a natural infection, but it certainly isn’t anything in favor of a vaccine being quick, easy, and effective either. Veterinary coronavirus vaccines are notoriously... well, not great.
https://www.avma.org/resources/pet-o...oronavirus-faq
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4147700/
Example: canine enteric coronavirus
Go to:
7. Vaccination and Treatment
A variety of inactivated and modified-live virus vaccines are commercially available and designed to prevent infection with CCoV [[url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4147700/#B59-viruses-06-03363]59]. Current vaccines are safe, but provide only incomplete protection—in that they reduce, but do not eliminate, CCoV replication in the intestinal tract [[url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4147700/#B40-viruses-06-03363]40,76]. As these vaccines are likely based on the classical CCoV-IIa viruses, protection against CCoV-1 strains with these vaccines is unlikely, and protection against the variant type II strains is uncertain. Treatment of CCoV-induced gastroenteritis is mainly by supportive care, including good maintenance of fluid and electrolytes. There are no available anti-viral drugs for treatment of CCoV infections.Last edited by Excargodog; 09-01-2020 at 06:41 AM.
09-01-2020, 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Excargodog
For the four other common Human coronaviruses - the ones that just cause colds - the median time of immunity to reinfection is only about 35 weeks.
But a vaccine should be able to provide longer immunity, more consistently, by aiming for a specific level of immune response (trials test different doses for that reason). How much longer? Who knows?
But even a 26-week vaccine would be just fine... compared to lockdown.
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