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Re:Mass hysteria is making coronavirus worse than it is by halfmatthalfcat on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @03:52PM (#22478608)
They are most likely not reinfections. You can still have the virus reproducing in your body, yet have recovered and are no longer spreading it. If you’re in this post-infection period, you’ll still intermittently test positive (especially when your stool is sampled). This is similar to EBV or HIV.

These tests (RT-PCR) also aren’t sensitive enough to test whether the virus is alive or dead, they test for the presence of genetic material.

Re:Mass hysteria is making coronavirus worse than it is by jbd0 on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @08:11AM (#22483422)
Viruses are not living things.