If confirmed, this isn't good (COVID-19 for the second time)

[Patooka]

Sailors on sidelined carrier get coronavirus for the second time

Five US sailors on an aircraft carrier sidelined in Guam due to a COVID-19 outbreak have tested positive for the virus for the second time and have been taken off the ship, according to the US Navy.

Here's hoping this is an explained discrepancy.

 

[krypton iodine sulfur]

There have been other documented cases around the world of what is either reinfection or relapse. I don't know if much headway has been made on explaining why this occurs or if there is even an approximate sense of how likely it is to occur in individuals. It does appear at least some people can be symptomatic more than once.

 

[barbos]

I would not read too much into it. Some tests are horribly inaccurate.
Also, asymptomatic people are not supposed to get immunity in the first place. They activate the first stage of immune response which kills virus fast without developing antibodies/immunity. If anything it's a good news, not bad one.

 

[Elixir]

We have "proof" that re-infection can occur in some people.
AFAIK though, there is little or no evidence that the presence of anti-bodies provides protection for any of the population.
Anyone?

Yet the blowhard in chief is promising a vaccine by year-end.
It would be nice to have something other than a totally corrupt fucktard in the whitehouse.

 

[repoman]

What type of test was used and of which exact subtype was used? Antibody or virus test, whole virus or PCR.

Then with that information boil down the implications and range of certainty for a layman. Any Bayesian stats to look at?

Without that these articles can be worse than useless unless you are looking for a dopamine hit.

 

[Artemus]

FWIW I read another report somewhere that the later positives in South Korea were due to people exhaling dead lung cells. I'll try to find a link.

ETA: One of many links that quote a to a WHO official's statement.

 

[repoman]

I would not read too much into it. Some tests are horribly inaccurate.
Also, asymptomatic people are not supposed to get immunity in the first place. They activate the first stage of immune response which kills virus fast without developing antibodies/immunity. If anything it's a good news, not bad one.

Can anyone here chime in on this?