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Re:Initial Covid-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater t... by chosenbreed37 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @07:05AM (#23626518)
> My spouse and I both work in a hospital. She got covid and so did one of our two siblings. Neither of them had any symptoms (spouse is in her 50's, our sibling is twenty plus.) I never got it nor did our other sibling. I also don't have antibodies. Go figure... it makes no sense to me.

I know it's anecdotal but it's interesting that your spouse contracted the virus but you did not. I'm assuming you live together. But then again I imagine it is quite common for one person in a household to catch a cold whilst everybody remains unaffected...I'm not equating covid-19 to the common cold. It came to mind as something that appears to spread in the same way.

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Re:Initial Covid-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater t... by SAI_Peregrinus on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @02:50PM (#23632225)
Also not everyone who gets it will notice and they may not even generate antibodies. If the innate immune response (as opposed to the adaptive response) is strong enough the patient can get infected and recover without ever generating antibodies.
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