As millions of Americans struggle to recover from covid and millions more scramble for the protection offered by vaccines, U.S. health officials may be overlooking an unsettling subgroup of survivors: those who get infected more than once. Identifying how common reinfection is among people who contracted covid — as well as how quickly they become vulnerable and why — carries important implications for our understanding of immunity and the nation’s efforts to devise an effective vaccination program.
Scientists have confirmed that reinfections after initial illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus are possible, but so far have characterized them as rare. Fewer than 50 cases have been substantiated worldwide, according to a global reinfection tracker. Just five have been substantiated in the U.S., including two detected in California in late January.
That sounds like a rather insignificant number. But scientists’ understanding of reinfection has been constrained by the limited number of U.S. labs that retain covid testing samples or perform genetic sequencing. A KHN review of surveillance efforts finds that many U.S. states aren’t rigorously tracking or investigating suspected cases of reinfection.
Read more at KHN.
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”Just five have been substantiated in the U.S., including two detected in California in late January.”
WISHFUL THINKING
WHY DON’T YOU SPEAK TO A TYPICAL PRACTIONER HOW MANY TIMES IT WAS SEEN IN THEIR OFFICE
SO far over 108,000,000 worldwide are known to have been infected. even if we were to multiply the number of know reinfections by a 100,000, the number of reinfections would still be insignificant with the rate of immunity to further infection being over 99%
Nonsense. The covid reinfection is rare to the point of non-existing. What does happen though is that the covid diagnostic tests were not designed to actually diagnose the disease; all they show is a presence of a certain genetic material without differentiating between active viruses and any other bits of dna space-junk that may be floating in our blood stream – that’s how you get a banana tested positive for covid 19. Basically, since most covid diagnoses are false, a person could have been “diagnosed” without actually having a disease, and would get the actual disease or another false positive later on, or any combination of these. No other infectious disease has such trigger-happy diagnostic-standard. A patient needs to have actual acute symptoms in order to be diagnosed with anything else, but all the medical standards get thrown out the window when it comes to covid politics. None of this covid hysteria has anything to do with actual science. Yes, there is covid, and some died from it, but the statistics are purposely inflated. In reality, covid fatalities are less than that of an annual flu season. That’s not to imply that seniors and diabetics should stop the covid precautions, but the question is why don’t you use the same paranoid precautions every flu season. The answer is politics.
Also the lack of testing at the beginning makes it difficult to quantify who already had the virus.
Especially if you remember once the test was available, but the media continued to create hype that it was difficult to get a test, which had the double effect of some people with symptoms not even attempting to get tested, and on the flip side other people caused a run on the tests. Which in turn caused an actual supply chain constraint.
There are so many variants now that reinfection is very possible. California has at least one of it’s own but they are not testing for the variants. Then there is the south african one…
Reinfection is possible if they get a different variation!