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2020-07-14 Science & Technology
My patient caught Covid-19 twice. So long to herd immunity hopes?
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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-14 04:49|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 To anybody actually interested - you know, not just to score debating points - how a second infection can be worse than the first, I can recommend:

T helper cell article in wikipedia.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-14 05:28||   2020-07-14 05:28|| Front Page Top

#2 It is like the common cold.

Not worth locking the economy down for.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-07-14 06:45||   2020-07-14 06:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Caught it again or first instance never really went away?
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-07-14 07:26||   2020-07-14 07:26|| Front Page Top

#4 ^It's in the text MM.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-14 07:32||   2020-07-14 07:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Th2 overactivation against autoantigen will cause Type1 IgE-mediated allergy and hypersensitivity.

I think this means we are more susceptible and less responsive to the mutated second edition.
Posted by Skidmark 2020-07-14 08:46||   2020-07-14 08:46|| Front Page Top

#6 So somebody explain to me again - how does a vaccine work?
Posted by Bobby 2020-07-14 08:50||   2020-07-14 08:50|| Front Page Top

#7 So you're admitting it's like the common cold? *snicker*

In the same way that pit bull & Chihuahua are both dogs.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-14 10:39||   2020-07-14 10:39|| Front Page Top

#8 There does appear to be a meaningful reinfection rate, though it's really hard to say what that might be because the number (7.5-15%) is within the accuracy rate of the tests. In other words, you can explain the entire measured number of reinfections as testing errors.
Posted by Iblis 2020-07-14 10:51||   2020-07-14 10:51|| Front Page Top

#9 ^Not when #2 is more severe than #1 (#1 =/= 0).
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-14 10:57||   2020-07-14 10:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Some thought must be given to the fact testing was a bit sketchy initially.
Posted by rjschwarz 2020-07-14 11:40||   2020-07-14 11:40|| Front Page Top

#11 RJ notice - he did have something.
So, you've to assume that (a) he didn't have cv19 but something else + (b) the test was false positive. That is, product of probabilities. Moreover, he's not the only one.
Finally, according to current immunological theory - see the Wikipedia article I've linked above, to each pathogen there can be an appropriate and an inappropriate response. And an inappropriate is worse than no response. Surely, you've heard of allergies and delayed type hypersensitivity?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-14 12:18||   2020-07-14 12:18|| Front Page Top

#12  testing was a bit sketchy initially.

I thought testing is a bit sketchy still.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-07-14 12:45||   2020-07-14 12:45|| Front Page Top

#13 Are deaths increasing? No? Fuck off, scaremonger.
Posted by Regular joe 2020-07-14 13:18||   2020-07-14 13:18|| Front Page Top

#14 ^Always nice to deal with an open minded person.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-14 13:22||   2020-07-14 13:22|| Front Page Top

#15 ^^But you know, actually they do (florida fig 2). Probably the medical staff drags in people from the street. Suffocates them with nylon bags & records them as covid victims.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-07-14 13:35||   2020-07-14 13:35|| Front Page Top

#16 Yes, sketchy tests continue.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-07-14 13:44||   2020-07-14 13:44|| Front Page Top

#17 Once credibility is damaged, it stays damaged. See: The Boy Who Cried Wolf.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-07-14 14:43||   2020-07-14 14:43|| Front Page Top

#18 Liars gotta lie, to strengthen the narrative.
Posted by Bobby 2020-07-14 15:15||   2020-07-14 15:15|| Front Page Top

#19 Remember when Phoney Fauci said AIDS was going to takeoff like WILDFIRE in the hetero community?

Pepperidge Farms does.
Posted by Regular joe 2020-07-14 16:40||   2020-07-14 16:40|| Front Page Top

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