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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 The study has not been published by a scientific journal and has not been peer-reviewed.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 Wednesday September 02 2020, @03:18PM (2 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday September 02 2020, @03:18PM (#1045413) Homepage Journal

    Insufficient for science. Well, maybe not climate science.

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  • (Score: 2) by acid andy on Wednesday September 02 2020, @04:36PM (1 child)

    by acid andy (1683) on Wednesday September 02 2020, @04:36PM (#1045453) Homepage Journal

    Nah. It's perfectly scientific to say that a greater percentage of the current world population will eventually have died from COVID-19 than have already died. It's practically a certainty that there will be further deaths and those that have already died cannot (realistically) be resurrected. It just becomes a question of trying to predict how much greater that percentage could be, which is a question of probability and recognizing what we don't yet know about the disease.

    Of course another side of it is questioning the accuracy of the existing published statistics. I think you've got that side covered, so I'll leave you to it on that.

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    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday September 03 2020, @05:15PM

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Thursday September 03 2020, @05:15PM (#1045931) Homepage Journal

      Yeah, if they were trying to make accurate predictions that would be a legit argument. They're not though. They're ordering numbers to be deliberately falsified and making claims even those numbers can't support. This shit is about politics and power top to bottom, the virus has never been more than an excuse.

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