Coronavirus reinfection case confirmed in Japan...

[Shogmaster]

We be fucked....

Japan reports possible case of patient reinfected with coronavirus

Reports of reinfection from Japan, China and South Korea have health officials worried, but other experts think these may be the result of relapses or errors in testing.

thehill.com

 

[swimming]

what the fuck

 

[maruchan]

I thought they said once you get it you can't get again..

 

[Linus815]

this was known for a while, even the article is old, and, as far as i know, there hasnt been any other confirmed cases like this.

 

[chefbags]

Well that's fucking terrifying.

 

[bye]

"Once you have the infection, it could remain dormant with minimal symptoms," Philip Tierno Jr., professor of microbiology and pathology at New York University, told Reuters.

"And then you can get an exacerbation if it finds its way into the lungs," he said

So she wasn't reinfected, just went dormant for a bit.

also old news. A mod should consider closing so we don't cause more panic.

 

[Mahonay]

"Published February 27th"

This has not become a pattern. Like the posted above said, it just went dormant.

 

[Min]

This isn't reinfection. It's reactivation of dormant virus that's already infected a host.

 

[FF Seraphim]

I think since the virus is so new that despite showing signs of recovery the person was not fully recovered and just pushed her body too hard allowing it to reemerge.

 

[thewienke]

This is definitely a subject area I'm waiting for more science to come out on because people can also rarely get something like Chicken Pox twice for a few reasons including having too mild of a case to begin with.

 

[Rory]

Published on Feb 27, 2020

This is old news.

I thought they said once you get it you can't get again..

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Nobody said that. We know nothing about the virus. Except that it ends up being either mild or deadly.

As it has not been researched long enough you can only say someone recovered clinically, which means nothing.

 

[Rory]

This is definitely a subject area I'm waiting for more science to come out on because people can also rarely get something like Chicken Pox twice for a few reasons including having too mild of a case to begin with.

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Thats different. In chicken pox you can get each strain only once.

while we have different corona strains, it could also be that corona itself can be caught repeatedly, its sleeping virus like herpes or simply didnt recover fully and just went into recovery modus.

 

[aerie]

As this has been known, and the article is a couple of weeks old, we're going to direct this conversation to the OT - https://www.resetera.com/threads/no...on-thread-discussion-guidelines-in-op.171547/.

Thank you.