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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday September 01 2020, @11:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the common-cold-/-covid-19? dept.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/another-covid-19-reinfection-this-time-second-infection-was-more-severe/

A 25-year-old resident of Reno, Nevada was infected with the pandemic coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, two times, about 48-days apart, with the second infection causing a more severe case of COVID-19 than the first and requiring hospitalization and oxygen support.

That's according to a draft study, led by researchers at the University of Nevada and posted online. The study has not been published by a scientific journal and has not been peer-reviewed. Still, it drew quick attention from researchers, who have been examining data from the first confirmed case of a SARS-CoV-2 reinfection, reported earlier this week.
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Amid the more than 24.5 million cases worldwide, it is completely expected to find some recovered patients who are not completely protected by their immune responses and are thus vulnerable to reinfection.

The big question is: how common is this scenario?


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 01 2020, @03:00PM (19 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday September 01 2020, @03:00PM (#1044938) Journal

    That's what really worries me to be honest. It's like how when in warfare you want to wound enemy soldiers rather than kill them; a wounded soldier is much more of a drag on the enemy than a dead one. The knock-on effects of coronavirus infection are the real terror, especially because you can bet your last slim dime they'll be called "pre-existing conditions" in the US.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 01 2020, @03:34PM (8 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday September 01 2020, @03:34PM (#1044948) Homepage Journal

    Um, pre-existing conditions are irrelevant nowadays. Did you forget?

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    • (Score: 3, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday September 01 2020, @06:20PM (7 children)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday September 01 2020, @06:20PM (#1045003) Journal

      Um, Trumplethinskin and his merry crew of sociopaths are trying to kill the ACA, did you forget?

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      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday September 02 2020, @03:30PM (6 children)

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday September 02 2020, @03:30PM (#1045423) Homepage Journal

        And? Do you see it actually happening?

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        • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday September 02 2020, @08:35PM (5 children)

          by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday September 02 2020, @08:35PM (#1045575) Journal

          Hell yes I see it happening, if this fat orange sack of Oompa Loompa turds gets "elected" "again."

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          • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 03 2020, @04:52PM (4 children)

            by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday September 03 2020, @04:52PM (#1045920) Homepage Journal

            You should at least drop the hysterical bullshit within the confines of your own head, even if you feel the need to use it because your side otherwise can't even resonate enough with the public to beat the absolute worst presidential candidate in history to actually win the office. The only way for that to actually happen is for the Reps to get a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. And retake the House. And convince the executive to go along with it.

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            • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday September 03 2020, @05:03PM (3 children)

              by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday September 03 2020, @05:03PM (#1045926) Journal

              That isn't hysteria you fool. Nothing is sacred, nothing is safe, and nothing can be taken for granted any longer, especially not if this asshole manages to get a second term in office.

              You should be more concerned about yourself than me; you have an unhealthy lifestyle and no connections to other human beings who could or would care to help you in case everything goes to Hell, and you're stuck out in the ass end of the People's Republic of Incestistan. You are nowhere near as intelligent, canny, self-reliant, or cunning as you like to think you are, and the kind of chaos a second Trump term would cause will kill you.

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              • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 03 2020, @05:27PM (2 children)

                by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday September 03 2020, @05:27PM (#1045935) Homepage Journal

                A party without better approval ratings than the Rs have taking the House is pretty unlikely, even given the current approval ratings of the Ds. Getting 67 seats in the Senate is just mathematically impossible without assassinations to free up more than the 12 seats held by Democrats that are up for reelection this year. So, yeah, you're saying the sky is falling when it's clearly not.

                It's so sweet you worry about me. We should go fishing together sometime.

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                • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday September 04 2020, @02:13AM (1 child)

                  by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Friday September 04 2020, @02:13AM (#1046167) Journal

                  That's an idea, but I can't imagine any fish would want a bite out of you...and considering what catfish eat, *that* is saying something.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by choose another one on Tuesday September 01 2020, @04:27PM (9 children)

    by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 01 2020, @04:27PM (#1044974)

    Well, to be brutally honest the amount of drag may be a wash - the western countries most affected already had large numbers of people with chronic, expensive, conditions, and there's only so many things you can get before you just die and stop being a drag anyway.

    But yes, this thing is looking more and more like our generation's polio. Polio or covid?:

    70-80% get no symptoms (but can happily spread it)
    1-5% need hospital
    no cure, only treatment of symptoms, ventilation and recovery assistance
    1% left with long term damage

    Few people these days will know polio survivors, I had the privilege of knowing one. Polio didn't kill her, cancer did, but only after (I believe) 50 odd years of being dependent on others (and the state) and on the oxygen bottles she dragged behind her as she shuffled around. Lovely person, I don't think I would have coped with that life half as well as she did.

    It'll be decades before we know the full consequences of covid, if anyone wants some extra fun reading to prove that, look up "encephalitis lethargica" - appeared and spread a lot (sometimes termed an epidemic in it's own right) in the decades after Spanish Flu and then seemed to disappear, we still don't really know if it was actually a post-spanish-flu syndrome.

    • (Score: 2) by choose another one on Tuesday September 01 2020, @09:46PM (8 children)

      by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday September 01 2020, @09:46PM (#1045109)

      Well that attempt to use gt / lt chars showed up different in preview to submitted, I swear, weird. Should have been:

      [less than] 1% die
      [greater than] 1% left with long term damage

      Just imagine the proper characters, one day I'll figure out how to get them to appear in a post.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @06:46AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @06:46AM (#1045282)

        It's a trap.

        & lt (< if you take the space out) shows up fine in preview, but SN changes it in the input text field to the actual character when it displays the preview. This turns it into opening a tag. The way to get around it is to copy the entirety of what you typed in the text box, then do preview. If it's ok, empty the text box and then paste in what you copied.

      • (Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday September 02 2020, @03:34PM (6 children)

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday September 02 2020, @03:34PM (#1045426) Homepage Journal

        Use &lt; and &gt; and it should work fine. That's done intentionally to keep arbitrary tags from being a thing and to keep the balanceTags sub viable.

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        • (Score: 2) by deimtee on Wednesday September 02 2020, @09:22PM (3 children)

          by deimtee (3272) on Wednesday September 02 2020, @09:22PM (#1045606) Journal

          Yeah, they work fine but preview changes them in the input box. You click preview, it looks fine, click submit, it's messed up unless you edited all the converted < and > back to the & codes.

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          • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 03 2020, @04:44PM (2 children)

            by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday September 03 2020, @04:44PM (#1045916) Homepage Journal

            Nah, I checked on this very comment and properly written entities do in fact stay entities; exactly as you keyed them in. It's when you don't include the semi-colon that is most definitely part of any HTML entity that things go wonky. <see?>

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            • (Score: 2) by deimtee on Saturday September 05 2020, @07:20PM (1 child)

              by deimtee (3272) on Saturday September 05 2020, @07:20PM (#1046921) Journal

              Ah. I am not much of an HTML weenie. They worked with just &lt and &gt so I just assumed that was the correct code and that it changing in the comment box was a bug.

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        • (Score: 3, Informative) by choose another one on Wednesday September 02 2020, @09:42PM (1 child)

          by choose another one (515) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday September 02 2020, @09:42PM (#1045616)

          Yeah, I knew I had to use the entities and thought I had, and checked it in preview...

          I have played around a bit and figured out what I did:

          - if you forget the semicolon (so use "&lt &gt")
          - and then use preview, it shows up "correct" (as expected if you had remembered the ; i.e. "< >" ) in the _preview_
          - BUT it also turns it into < > in the _comment_
          - so if you forget the semicolon, hit preview, check preview, and then submit, your posted comment is not like the preview

          Not sure if you consider that a bug or just an idiot user who hasn't edited raw html in a long time (and doesn't miss it). Hopefully I've actually got the html entities right this time so it makes sense...