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https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/484942-japan-confirms-first-case-of-person-reinfected
Osakas prefectural government confirmed Wednesday a woman working as a tour bus guide tested positive for coronavirus for the second time after developing a sore throat and chest pain. The woman, who is said to be in her 40s, first tested positive in late January and was discharged from the hospital on Feb. 1 after showing signs of recovery.
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Scary
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Sugar Smack
(18,748 posts)dchill
(38,502 posts)uponit7771
(90,346 posts)Blues Heron
(5,937 posts)does the article clarify?
Relapse is one thing, but reinfection would seem to be a whole level worse
soryang
(3,299 posts)Inferences have been drawn by experts trying to track the disease pathways through affected communities based upon assumptions about the incubation period and when symptoms would become manifest.
A group of young people living and or working together in close quarters, such as those in the Shincheonji group in South Korea, or the new cluster in Seoul in a call center, on one floor in a high rise building, could pass the virus back and forth to each other for weeks before someone becomes sick enough to come to the attention of public health authorities. By then scores of people if not more are already infected, one hundred plus in the case of the new Seoul cluster.
Imho, I'm not a medical expert.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)Dismissal from hospital...having this once does not mean re wont/cant get this again. Only a vaccine will stop us all from getting this time and time again.
Heres my source
SNIP
SHANGHAI/LONDON (Reuters) - A growing number of discharged coronavirus patients in China and elsewhere are testing positive after recovering, sometimes weeks after being allowed to leave the hospital, which could make the epidemic harder to eradicate.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)lostnfound
(16,179 posts)Vaccine basically is a way to trick your immune system into developing the right antibodies.
If the antibodies you get from being sick dont create immunity, how would a vaccine??
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)LisaL
(44,973 posts)Yikes.
gembaby1
(253 posts)THAT IS NOT GOOD
still_one
(92,212 posts)snort
(2,334 posts)Perhaps she was released too early.
Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)EndlessWire
(6,536 posts)right here in the states. Patient passed quarantine protocols and had to come back into care for symptoms.
Who do we have in charge that is aware of this stuff? At the time, we questioned the timeline of the quarantine, and nothing but crickets. This is a massive problem.
It appears that they picked two weeks just because they used two weeks for SARS and MERS.
SiliconValley_Dem
(1,656 posts)Takket
(21,573 posts)And by "we're", i mean the human race. It will eventually infect everyone except for hermits living in shacks in the woods. It will be the end of society as we know it. It will kill everyone not healthy enough to survive the first infection and eventually wear down the bodies of everyone else.
I sincerely hope this is some sort of mistake (like she had the flu first and covid second) because if our immune systems are helpless to fight this............ there is no other defense.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)So it's not re-infection as much as virus never was completely gone. Happens in some ebola cases.
blogslut
(38,001 posts)To clarify: Two weeks of quarantine for people infected with COVID-19. I swear I read that they might need longer periods of quarantine because the virus is infectious for longer than was thought.
Or am I taking crazy pills?
roamer65
(36,745 posts)Sometimes people dont develop immunity on the first infection. It takes a reinfection for immunity to develop.
If the virus changes, then the process starts all over again.