Surviving the coronavirus, then testing positive again

Re:Surviving the coronavirus, then testing positive again by nedwards72756 on Friday March 13, 2020 @12:51PM (#22568813)

Also, spreading of flu during "flu season" is marked by holidays when long distance travel happens. This causes slightly different strains of the flu to be brought into regions where people do not have a natural defense to that strain.

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Re:Surviving the coronavirus, then testing positive again by slowmovintarget on Friday March 13, 2020 @01:32PM (#22569146)

Interesting tidbit I learned at a Town Meeting (streamed) yesterday. Winter Break in Massachusetts was instituted to halt the rapid spread of flu during the winter months. Kids would take it into school, spread it among themselves and bring it home to adults, who would get hit harder by it.

The winter break put an an incidental isolation in place that slowed the person-to-person spread down.

This is why schools have to close now to control the spread of COVID-19.

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Re:Surviving the coronavirus, then testing positive again by cvwright on Friday March 13, 2020 @03:49PM (#22570316)

I think you mean February break.

Winter break usually refers to the break that includes Christmas and New Years Day.

In Massachusetts they instituted a second break in February, in addition to spring break in April, in order to cut the flu season.

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Re:Surviving the coronavirus, then testing positive again by aquadrop on Friday March 13, 2020 @01:14PM (#22569008)

There is a lot of long distance traveling during summer as well, with all the vacations.

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