Re:Cellular immunity to SARS-CoV2 found at 6 months in non-h...
by acqq on Monday November 02, 2020 @09:29AM
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> From that, we can already tell that reinfection, although possible, is very rare.
No. From the current papers, we just know that the reinfection where people have had their virus sequenced in both first and second infection is very rare.
The problem is technological. Up to now there are around 50 million confirmed cases in the world but probably less than 100 thousand sequencings performed, and only a few sequencings by those who had strong enough symptoms twice and had the chance to have sequencing twice.
Without sequencing one just can’t prove that some case is an actual reinfection. All other cases are just “possible” (i.e. unprovable) reinfections and nobody can claim anything worthy of a scientific paper about them.
No. From the current papers, we just know that the reinfection where people have had their virus sequenced in both first and second infection is very rare.
The problem is technological. Up to now there are around 50 million confirmed cases in the world but probably less than 100 thousand sequencings performed, and only a few sequencings by those who had strong enough symptoms twice and had the chance to have sequencing twice.
Without sequencing one just can’t prove that some case is an actual reinfection. All other cases are just “possible” (i.e. unprovable) reinfections and nobody can claim anything worthy of a scientific paper about them.