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Re:Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' vi... by p49k on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:43PM (#23024028)
> In other words, when you recover from covid-19, you are immune to it. In other words, covid-19 is just like every other virus, in this respect.

That’s not how HSV works. That’s not how hepatitis works.

Re:Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' vi... by mr_toad on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @08:04PM (#23026083)
You don’t get re-infected by HSV or chronic hepatitis; you don’t recover in the first place. In the first case the virus hides from the immune system, in the second it never properly overcomes the infection.
Re:Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' vi... by mirthflat83 on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @04:57PM (#23024199)
“Just like other coronaviruses”

There you go

Re:Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' vi... by p49k on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @05:07PM (#23024312)
Even that's not true. 15-30% of the viruses that are attributed to the common cold are coronaviruses, and it's pretty clear that the common cold does not behave in the way OP described.
Re:Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' vi... by mirthflat83 on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @05:16PM (#23024421)
Do you know about genetic drift/shift/different strains?

Moreover, recent literature continues to confirm that you have protective immunity after recovering from covid like any other coronavirus. This is the basis for convalescent plasma therapy

Re:Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' vi... by p49k on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @06:06PM (#23025015)
Yes, but you’re drifting from the original point I was arguing against: “all viruses act exactly like the flu, therefore governments overreacted by not immediately assuming it was exactly like the flu” - which has a false premise.
Re:Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' vi... by mirthflat83 on Wednesday April 29, 2020 @06:12PM (#23025080)
No, it’s you who’s drifting away from “Just like other coronaviruses”