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Re:California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining by Izkata on Sunday April 19, 2020 @01:36PM (#22917355)
> Given you develop immunity after (no evidence you don't yet)

Not no evidence [0][1], it's currently my biggest fear about this virus. There's a few possibilities here:

* The tests are picking up dead virus remains

* Their tests were bad and they didn't actually recover

* Their body didn't create enough antibodies and the immunity was weak

* The virus is biphasic - symptoms stop for a while only to return later, and they never actually recovered

My hope is that what we've been seeing turns out to be among the first causes here, but we've been hearing about possible reinfections for months.

[0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-health-reinfection-...

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0...

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Re:California Covid-19 traffic report finds silver lining by arcticbull on Sunday April 19, 2020 @09:29PM (#22920323)
Indeed but that's not evidence of re-infection. That's evidence that re-infection should be thoroughly investigated. Rather, it's evidence of smoke not evidence of fire.
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