#Reinfections

Study of 25,661 UK healthcare workers (including 8,278 with past COVID-19), showing past infection offers 84% protection against reinfection (93% for symptomatic disease) over 1-7 months. The emergence of the

Kristian G. Andersen

'Reinfected' patient:1. One positive RT-PCR for episode 1.2. IgG (-) 10 days after ep 1 and just after ep 2.3. IgG (+) 5 days after ep 2.I don't doubt reinfections

WHAT THIS THREAD MEANS FROM CHINESE RESEARCHERS IS THAT THEY DID NOT SEE A HIGH LEVEL OF IMMUNITY IN RECOVERED PATIENTSAND THAT CAN LED TO REINFECTIONS AND THE NECESSITY TO

michaelmina_lab

Terrific balanced reporting here by @apoorva_nyc It’s very important to make some points clear - the article discusses these...As I and other immunologists have been saying for months, #COVID19 reinfection

Bloomberg Opinion

The emergence of a handful of individuals reinfected by Covid-19 has sparked panic over the future course of the pandemic.If humanity plunges into a never-ending cycle of relapses, then a

Yesterday, @nytimes published an article titled "Coronavirus Reinfections Are Real but Very, Very Rare."I wish this statement were true. But it is not only inaccurate, it may lead to dangerous

Peter Kolchinsky

PeterKolchinsky

If you are hearing about #covid19 “reinfections” in Asia, I can offer you my take as a virologist. The best explanation for what we’re seeing is likely due to three

In this immunology explainer, I noted that some anecdotal accounts of COVID-19 reinfections exist, but to confirm them, you'd need to sequence the genes of the virus from both infections

Catherine Moore 🦠🧬🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧

We do NOT routinely use serology to diagnose or even confirm past infection with ANY respiratory virus. Even influenza. Few labs may still use complement fixation tests, but they require

I know of No successful #vaccine for any of the coronavirus familyAll this talk of a vaccine soon is to distract, best that can be hoped for is treatments to

1/Last week there were reports of #COVID19 reinfections in South Korea.“It is highly unlikely that those who tested positive again [in RT-PCR tests] might have been infected again”-Yoo Cheon-Kwon, Korea

7/24/2020 #COVID Update. I've worked two weeks here in Yuma, Arizona so I can discuss what I'm seeing. The first shift had a few hypoxic super sick COVID patients, but

Why the fck is the WHO saying this? I get that they want to discourage the “oh, let's just let everyone get infected” ‘policy’, but “no evidence” at all that

Eric Feigl-Ding

RE-INFECTION TRACKER—now 11: There has now been 11 documented cases of #SARSCoV2 infection. @BNONews has been tracking such clinical reinfections of #COVID19. By BNO unofficial tabulation, there are now 11,

Eric Feigl-Ding

BREAKING—First ever reinfection death from #COVID19 has now been scientifically confirmed. An 89-year old woman infected 2 months ago; recovered. New reinfection by different strain (verified), then led to death.

#IndiaFightsCorona This was not a fluke or guess work. Studied up on Convalescent Plasma Therapy used in #Ebola and then understood some mechanisms and preconditions for it to work. But