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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 The study has not been published by a scientific journal and has not been peer-reviewed.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: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday September 01 2020, @02:05PM (8 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday September 01 2020, @02:05PM (#1044910) Homepage Journal

    Disagree all you like, you'll just be proven wrong. Pretty much everyone's numbers are saying exactly that though. Throughout Europe [nature.com], so you can't rightly bitch about US numbers being as intentionally dishonest as they are and sidetrack the discussion, you have a 0.01% or less chance of dying of a diagnosed and reported case of coronaids if you're 50 or younger. Since so incredibly many cases are entirely asymptomatic, the real number's even less than that. Feel free to keep declaring the sky is falling though.

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @04:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 01 2020, @04:15PM (#1044969)

    There you go- ruining a perfectly good budding flame war with actual facts, logic, and rational conclusions. Sheesh.

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  • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Tuesday September 01 2020, @06:02PM (6 children)

    by acid andy (1683) on Tuesday September 01 2020, @06:02PM (#1044998) Homepage Journal

    you have a 0.01% or less chance of dying

    Even assuming your figure is correct (I don't have time to fact check that right now), that's only based on what little we know of this disease in humans so far. All we know is that most of those people haven't died yet. It's a nasty disease and they could all start dropping like flies 20 years from now. When you get old, lung damage from earlier in life starts to become a much bigger issue.

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    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday September 02 2020, @03:10PM (5 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday September 02 2020, @03:10PM (#1045408) Homepage Journal

      No. You do not get to say dying 20 years later is on coronaids. Humanity sure as fuck isn't going to give you twenty years to find out if it does or not either.

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      • (Score: 3, Funny) by acid andy on Wednesday September 02 2020, @04:23PM (4 children)

        by acid andy (1683) on Wednesday September 02 2020, @04:23PM (#1045436) Homepage Journal

        'kay. We'll discuss this further in 2040.

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        • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 03 2020, @05:18PM (3 children)

          by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday September 03 2020, @05:18PM (#1045932) Homepage Journal

          Not if the chicken littles of the world are right. We'll all have died of coronaids, been killed by cops, or been defended against in peaceful protests by then.

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          • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Thursday September 03 2020, @05:53PM (2 children)

            by acid andy (1683) on Thursday September 03 2020, @05:53PM (#1045941) Homepage Journal

            Ah well, my posthumous SoylentNews argumentconversation bot should be ready by then to take over that discussion. It will be powered by downmods (technically, a special peripheral attached to the ethernet adapter will harvest the electric energy only associated with packets containing its comments that were downmodded).

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            • (Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 03 2020, @07:24PM (1 child)

              by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday September 03 2020, @07:24PM (#1046000) Homepage Journal

              Two shiny new lines of code in to autocollapse spam modded comments. Enjoy.

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              • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Thursday September 03 2020, @10:11PM

                by acid andy (1683) on Thursday September 03 2020, @10:11PM (#1046087) Homepage Journal

                Nice work, thank you. My comment wasn't really meant to be a subtle dig about the spam bot though. Probably partly inspired by it, but it just supposed to be crazy bullshit.

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