How Significant is Reinfection of Coronavirus Patient in South Korea?
South Korea has reported 813 new cases bringing the total to 3,150 people infected, mostly in the Daegu area. This number is only going to continue to rise as more of the Shincheonji church members are tested. Of these cases 17 have died. Here is the most interesting news from the article:
The country also reported its first case of reinfection by the new coronavirus, with a 73-year-old woman testing positive for the novel coronavirus for a second time, even after being released from quarantine.
Yonhap
This seems potentially scary, but the article did not provide any context though on what this means. Here is an article I found that provides some context:
“Everyone, by the time they reach adulthood, should have some immunity to some coronavirus,” said Tim Sheahan, a coronavirus researcher at University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. But because it doesn’t last, older people can get reinfected. The elderly also have a higher death rate from coronaviruses such as SARS and MERS, a pattern 2019-nCoV is following.
“There is some evidence that people can be reinfected with the four coronaviruses and that there is no long-lasting immunity,” Dr. Susan Kline, an infectious disease specialist at of the University of Minnesota. “Like rhinoviruses [which cause the common cold], you could be infected multiple times over your life. You can mount an antibody response, but it wanes, so on subsequent exposure you don’t have protection.” Subsequent infections often produce milder illness, however.
The common-cold-causing coronaviruses are different enough that an infection from one won’t produce immunity to another. But the novel coronavirus overlaps enough with SARS that survivors of the 2002-3003 outbreak might have some immunity to the new arrival, Sheahan said: “Is it enough to prevent infection? I don’t know.”
Stat News
The coronavirus is similar to the common cold virus to where people can build limited immunity, but can still catch it again; especially older people with weaker immune systems.
It seems that the coronavirus is following this same pattern. The article goes on to speculate that COVID-19 could go on and just become the fifth form of seasonal coronaviruses that appear during the colder months. However, according to the article there is much still unknown about this virus that requires further research.
It would be interesting to see complete statistics from South Korea in regards to the ages and health status of those infected with the coronavirus. That would help determine how much more older people and those with preexisting health conditions are at risk of contracting the virus than younger people.
China created a hell of a virus…too bad idiots didn’t think to make a counter acting treatment. F’ing commies
China didn’t make this virus. Actual scientists from outside of China have already determined that it is not man-made. But, of course, it would have been nice if the Chinese people did not use those “wet markets” in the search of an erection.
Actual scientists from outside of China have already determined that it is not man-made.
I’ve read that too and am kind of curious how they could tell if I virus mutated via tampering or on its own. I guess CRISPR gene editing software leaves a “fingerprint”? Is that the only way to do it? Inquiring minds, and all that.
Site source, many research labs outside china take funding from commie china and are not independent or trustworthy. Look at all the US professors being arrested for taking filthy chinese money.
“am kind of curious how they could tell if I virus mutated via tampering or on its own”
WuFlu19 is close to SARS and MERS in a way that suggests natural variability. There is nothing unusual about it that would suggest some clever man-made trick to make it more deadly.
However, it seems increasingly likely that this virus was being studied in a Wuhan lab and leaked out to the market.
Lesson Learned: Don’t put your bioweapons lab 300 meters from your food court.
Bonus Thought: Perhaps these professors secretly taking Chinese money to transfer American research and technology to China should be charged with espionage and given long prison sentences.
Thanks CH!