Unlikely, since the disease is so new that there’s no proof that getting it and recovering provides any immunity whatsoever.
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Can I be the first to say, once again,
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Thank Dumbledore for gifs and memes; otherwise, I’d have lost my voice for good by now, from all the rage screaming…
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fondly! lol
“People of Earth, New York and Manhattan, I am from Jupiter…”
BTW: Where is Dr. Octagon when we need him?
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Yep - looks like even if you had it once you can get it again. Most likely a different strain.
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Well that’s just fucking great, isn’t it?
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All of the stories at this point about reinfection are premature. We know that the false negative rate on the tests is unbelievably high. Some of the results are in the range of 30% false negatives. https://www.healthline.com/health-news/false-negatives-covid19-tests-symptoms-assume-you-have-illness#How-false-negatives-happen That means we should expect that nearly 1 in ten people who still have a viral load can have two negative tests. Any situation where you are testing a bunch of people with unreliable tests will show reinfections, even if they don’t exist. Given that we know the disease sticks around in the body for a long time in infected people and has an ebb and flow in the symptoms, it will look like reinfections are common. We won’t know until we have good data over a long period. It’s still possible that they are real, but we can’t tell.
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