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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 The study has not been published by a scientific journal and has not been peer-reviewed.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?
(Score: 2) by sjames on Tuesday September 01 2020, @05:12PM (4 children)
The thing is, many of those underlying conditions would never have been the patient's cause of death.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @08:18PM (2 children)
The thing is, the patient was going to die eventually, anyway. Covid may have hastened that death, or it may not have. Roll 5 d20, any result over 96 says Covid was the killer.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday September 02 2020, @12:37AM
Yes, that seems to be the message from certain ...people.
"Some of you are going to die, but that's a price I'm prepared to pay".
(Score: 2) by sjames on Wednesday September 02 2020, @09:21AM
Everybody will die eventually, but for some reason we still try to avoid it and we still throw people in prison if they speed the process up for someone else.
Sounds like you're the kind of generous person that will cheerfully give yourself the shirt right off of someone else's back.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday September 01 2020, @10:23PM
I was bored enough to research it, it seems to be the majority of causes of death, according to
https://www.cdc.gov/Nchs/data/ahcd/agingtrends/06olderpersons.pdf [cdc.gov]
Chinese Flu condition list accounts for 32 + 8 + 6 + 3 + 3 + 2 = 54% of death certificate causes
Non-Chinese flu death certificate causes in the top 10 include cancer at 22%, Alzheimers at 3%, accidents around 2% and septicemia around 2%.
I had to look up septicemia to figure out what it is; hell it kills about 1 in 50 Americans. Turns out its undifferentiated infection where your body starts rotting before you finish dying. That sucks. I'd be willing to "give" septicemia to either argument for or against although I felt pessimistic so I filed it as against.