SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
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 The study has not been published by a scientific journal and has not been peer-reviewed.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.
[...]
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 choose another one on Tuesday September 01 2020, @10:16PM
Lots of places count suspected cases as well, if diagnosed medically. Once the doctors have seen enough of this they know damn well what it looks like (in it's severe forms), for example some of the lung damage seen on CTs is pretty darned unique to covid. False negative rate is pretty high on the PCR tests due to sampling process, some people have tested negative multiple times but still have _something_ that is typical for covid and atypical for everything else.
Beyond that there are suspect numbers all over the place, partly because cause-of-death is not a black and white thing. If you have a long-term heart condition, have a stroke while driving, crash the car, survive but die of a heart attack while the ambulance waits out side a hospital overflowing with covid patients, did you die of the heart condition, the stroke, the crash or the inadequate hospital... or covid? What if you have a heart condition, OD on drugs, then a thug kneels on your neck, then you have a cardiac arrest?
Today in the UK the NHS announced 10 new covid deaths in hospitals. Today's final official total, including hospitals, care homes and deaths in the community - 3. Work that one out.