#Reinfection

Some things worth noting about this. 1) it really does look like a reinfection if the sequence is that different and typical of what is circulating in Spain 1/nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/24/health/coronavirus-reinfection.html 2)

First Covid-19 reinfection documented in Hong Kong, researchers sayhttps://www.statnews.com/2020/08/24/first-covid-19-reinfection-documented-in-hong-kong-researchers-say/ ".... what appears to be the first confirmed case of Covid-19 re

Prof. Akiko Iwasaki

VirusesImmunity

A first case of #COVID19 reinfection from HKU, with distinct virus genome sequences in 1st and 2nd infection (142 days apart). Kudos to the scientists for this study.This is no

Prof. Akiko Iwasaki

VirusesImmunity

A 25 yr old patient in Nevada has a confirmed case of #COVID19 reinfection (48 days apart between 1st and 2nd PCR). This time, unlike the case in Hong Kong,

1. Reinfection. Whisper it quietly lest you be dismissed as a crank or alarmist. What bothers me about the question of reinfection is that if you talk to a lot

DNC_That_Coming

NEW TWiV OUT UPDATE FROM DANIEL GRIFFIN!!I'll fart out anything cool I hear in the replies. Christie got Ely Lily's monoclonal antibody (don't bother trying to get it, it's for

Breaking: A 33-year-old man in Hong Kong caught Covid-19 in April. Four months later, he caught it again.Scientists say it is the world's first evidence that coronavirus antibodies only last

Apoorva Mandavilli

NEW: Hong Kong has reported the first confirmed case of reinfection to the coronavirus. Details not on Twitter (there is a manuscript!) + what it means for immunity & herd

Caleph B. Wilson

@KYT_ThatsME @Satirony @NakedCapsid @KizzyPhD Does #SARSCoV2 form reservoirs that can start making more virions weeks to months after a patient has recovered from #COVID19?Trying to understand if reinfection happens or

A 33-year-old man in Hong Kong has contracted COVID-19 twice this year in what is said to be the first documented case of reinfectionhttps://www.newsbytesapp.com/timeline/world/65102/306779/study-finds-first-case-of-coronavirus-reinfection

Eric Feigl-Ding

NEW: Reinfection risk of #COVID19 now estimated at 1 in 10,000 cases from latest @Cornell and @WHO study. Details in below thread .https://twitter.com/drericding/status/1311049145759694848 2) And they did a detail investigation-

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

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,

The antibody story to #COVID19 is not simple:1. Some people w/ infection don't develop much IgG (it's about level, not just 0|1)https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3078840/coronavirus-low-antibody-levels-raise-questions-about2. Pe

Carl T. Bergstrom

Damn it, @ABC. That's not at all what the CDC guidelines say, and you're sowing undue fear about reinfection and doubt about vaccine efficacy.If anything, the CDC guidelines say that

Dr. Angela Rasmussen

angie_rasmussen

Okay, new paper out in @TheLancetInfDis. Yes, this guy was reinfected. Yes, he got sicker the second time around. No, it doesn't mean that this is common or that reinfection