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Re:Cellular immunity to SARS-CoV2 found at 6 months in non-h... by Symmetry on Monday November 02, 2020 @09:42AM (#24968594)
I'm not sure we can rule out the idea that reinfection after 6 months is common but almost always asymptomatic in people with healthy immune systems. There was that British common cold coronavirus challenge trial where most subjects could be reinfected after 1 year, confirmed by PCR, but none of them developed symptoms.
Re:Cellular immunity to SARS-CoV2 found at 6 months in non-h... by acqq on Monday November 02, 2020 @09:47AM (#24968650)
Which could mean that such asymptomatic people could still infect somebody vulnerable, if they shed enough virus at some point of their reinfection.

The open question is, again, what will be the percentage of such cases.

Re:Cellular immunity to SARS-CoV2 found at 6 months in non-h... by SomeoneFromCA on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @05:16PM (#24984645)
Unfortunately there are several taboos on many forums, regarding discussion Covid. For ex.: Covid reinfections, lab origins of covid etc.
Re:Cellular immunity to SARS-CoV2 found at 6 months in non-h... by acqq on Thursday November 05, 2020 @05:58AM (#24997210)
SARS-CoV-2 has not been created in the lab. The genome looks completely different than such.
Re:Cellular immunity to SARS-CoV2 found at 6 months in non-h... by SomeoneFromCA on Saturday November 07, 2020 @10:15AM (#25015506)
Yeah, exactly what I was talking about. There is no way to say this just by looking at the genome, all you can do is to say that is not very probable, and that would still be a dubious claim. There is a plenty of gnome manipulations that leave no trace. Having said that, lab origin does not neccesarily mean genetic manipulation. Serial passage through animals (say, minks) will leave no trace of genetic engineering, but may make the virus contagius to humans (minks and humans have similar ACE2 receptor). Or just poorly handled sample from the would do.
Re:Cellular immunity to SARS-CoV2 found at 6 months in non-h... by acqq on Monday November 09, 2020 @04:25AM (#25032966)
That are all bogus claims. Biology doesn’t work how somebody not in the field in his simplistic theory think it does. The claims as written show a complete distance from the field and the necessary understanding needed to be able to even understand how wrong the claims are. Theoretically anything can be synthesized, practically, nobody would ever be even near to synthesize what we actually observe. Human controlled “passage through animals” would need many decades to produce the patterns. Totally wrong claims based on bad understanding of how that all works.
Re:Cellular immunity to SARS-CoV2 found at 6 months in non-h... by anoncake on Friday November 06, 2020 @03:29AM (#25006018)
How do you identify a lab-created virus?
Re:Cellular immunity to SARS-CoV2 found at 6 months in non-h... by SomeoneFromCA on Saturday November 07, 2020 @10:16AM (#25015517)
Of course there is no way. I think people need to start relaxing. Trump has lost, so stop being afraid talking about the lab origins of Covid.