Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' virus fragments: experts

Re:Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' vi... by dekhn on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:24PM (#23023798)

I don't think we have any reliable evidence of post-recovery immunity at all. I wouldn't expect to have any until we've seen multiple cycles of this virus, and analyzed the data carefully. Press-release-science during an emergency is close to worthless.

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Re:Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' vi... by rootusrootus on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @10:21PM (#23026839)

If you don't have any post-recovery immunity, then how do you ever recover to begin with?

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Re:Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' vi... by dekhn on Thursday April 30, 2020 @10:12AM (#23030971)

immunity prevents you from being infected, not from eliminating the virus. People who are cured of AIDS by eliminating HIV aren't then immune.

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Re:Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' vi... by rootusrootus on Thursday April 30, 2020 @08:12PM (#23037783)

HIV is a bit of a special case to begin with, since it's attacking the very immune system that would try to kill it. But is anyone clearing the virus on their own? I thought it required extensive retroviral therapy, and even then it isn't actually cleared?

Admittedly, I don't really keep up on the status of HIV, maybe something has changed.

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Re:Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' vi... by dekhn on Friday May 01, 2020 @11:19AM (#23042850)

A very small number of people have natural immunity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innate_resistance_to_HIV

I am not sure if anybody gets infected, then clears the virus on their own.

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