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iluvtennis

(19,861 posts)
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 12:47 PM Mar 2020

Japan confirms first case of re-infection of coronavirus

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IMPORTANT

You can become RE-INFECTED with #COVID19 even after you've recovered.

The #Coronavirus is not going away anytime soon.

WASH YOUR HANDS






https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/484942-japan-confirms-first-case-of-person-reinfected
Osaka’s 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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Japan confirms first case of re-infection of coronavirus (Original Post) iluvtennis Mar 2020 OP
WOW Sherman A1 Mar 2020 #1
SHIT. Sugar Smack Mar 2020 #2
The oh shit moment. dchill Mar 2020 #3
Shit (Aretha Franklin gif) uponit7771 Mar 2020 #4
reinfection or relapse? Blues Heron Mar 2020 #5
This may be one of the problems with investigations tracking the virus soryang Mar 2020 #6
I read a couple weeks ago, that China was experiencing a 14% reinfection rate after KewlKat Mar 2020 #7
Vaccine maybe, but reinfections could be mutations. Some evidence of two strains. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2020 #9
Wouldn't this mean that vaccine is also likely to be ineffective? lostnfound Mar 2020 #16
Kick KewlKat Mar 2020 #8
This is just the thing that keeps on giving. LisaL Mar 2020 #10
Okay... gembaby1 Mar 2020 #11
That means you don't develop immunity or build antibodies against it still_one Mar 2020 #12
This could be relapse. snort Mar 2020 #13
Or an anomaly. One single confirmed case. Midnight Writer Mar 2020 #14
This happened also EndlessWire Mar 2020 #17
We had heard this from China. Looks like it is legit SiliconValley_Dem Mar 2020 #15
if that is true... it means we're fucked Takket Mar 2020 #18
It's possible that virus in these people never really was gone. LisaL Mar 2020 #19
Wasn't there some news about how 2 weeks' quarantine may not be long enough? blogslut Mar 2020 #20
It happens with norovirus as well. roamer65 Mar 2020 #21

Blues Heron

(5,936 posts)
5. reinfection or relapse?
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 12:54 PM
Mar 2020

does the article clarify?

Relapse is one thing, but reinfection would seem to be a whole level worse

soryang

(3,299 posts)
6. This may be one of the problems with investigations tracking the virus
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 12:56 PM
Mar 2020

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)
7. I read a couple weeks ago, that China was experiencing a 14% reinfection rate after
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 01:01 PM
Mar 2020

Dismissal from hospital...having this once does not mean re won’t/can’t get this again. Only a vaccine will stop us all from getting this time and time again.

Here’s 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.

lostnfound

(16,179 posts)
16. Wouldn't this mean that vaccine is also likely to be ineffective?
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 04:10 PM
Mar 2020

Vaccine basically is a way to trick your immune system into developing the right antibodies.
If the antibodies you get from being sick don’t create immunity, how would a vaccine??

EndlessWire

(6,536 posts)
17. This happened also
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 11:23 PM
Mar 2020

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.

Takket

(21,573 posts)
18. if that is true... it means we're fucked
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 11:31 PM
Mar 2020

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)
19. It's possible that virus in these people never really was gone.
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 11:33 PM
Mar 2020

So it's not re-infection as much as virus never was completely gone. Happens in some ebola cases.

blogslut

(38,001 posts)
20. Wasn't there some news about how 2 weeks' quarantine may not be long enough?
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 11:34 PM
Mar 2020

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)
21. It happens with norovirus as well.
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 11:49 PM
Mar 2020

Sometimes people don’t 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.

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