Re:Japanese man tests positive for coronavirus again
by dooglius on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:57PM
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It's not a boolean whether people become immune or not--maybe some small portion of the population have issues developing immunity and the rest are fine?
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Re:Japanese man tests positive for coronavirus again
by __blockcipher__ on Tuesday March 17, 2020 @03:59PM
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My reasoning is the same, but rather than it being binary, it’s a gradient.
So after recovery I might be able to ward off 80% of exposure events that would infect a non-immune person. But given enough exposures or just really bad luck, I could still get infected again.
That being said generally in these cases the infection resolves way sooner due to the same mechanism that leads to immunity: immune “memory cells” which wait dormant, ready to start production of immune cels when exposed to the characteristic antigens