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Re:SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant infected 16 fully Pfizer vaccina... by pigeonhole123 on Friday July 23, 2021 @06:29AM (#27929140)
I find it curious that the rate of reinfection from that study coincides exactly with the false positive rate of the test
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Re:SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant infected 16 fully Pfizer vaccina... by scotty79 on Friday July 23, 2021 @07:08AM (#27929395)
Some of the reinfected people died. You don't die from false positive result on two tests. It's not stated in the article buy you can safely assume that some of the reinfected had symptoms other than death as well.
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Re:SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant infected 16 fully Pfizer vaccina... by pigeonhole123 on Friday July 23, 2021 @11:01AM (#27931430)
They presumably didn’t die from their first detected infection which may be a false positive. And I guess by “some” you mean a small subset. Other sources are saying around 30 confirmed reinfections worldwide. Which is correct?
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Re:SARS-CoV-2 Gamma variant infected 16 fully Pfizer vaccina... by scotty79 on Friday July 23, 2021 @01:24PM (#27933282)
Definitely not the ones with number 30 in the whole world.

Brazillian variant of vovid reinfects one in 6 people previously infected with earlier variant: https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1353

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