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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 The study has not been published by a scientific journal and has not been peer-reviewed.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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @11:06PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @11:06PM (#1045145)

    A lot of people who did not die of AIDS ended up with cancer. AIDS makes the person much more susceptible.

    If these deaths "from cancer" followed the AIDS diagnoses by a couple years, the person may have really died of cancer. Of course in the 80s, there were not that many who got diagnosed with AIDS that lived long enough to get cancer.