COVID Reinfection

There was some initial scare mongering about how we wouldn't get immunity because we could be reinfected.

There was some initial scare mongering about how we wouldn't get immunity because we could be reinfected. China and South Korea had shown a few cases of people that were cured that came back positive in a later test. However, later studies indicated that this was likely just residual RNA fragments (de-activated) that hadn't been fully flushed from the body yet. Never mind.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2020-04-30

It turns out that it did mutate fast enough to defeat vaccines. But a lot of the early re-infections with the same variant were EXTREMELY rare, or just bad testing. Mostly what happens is that you get different variants.

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COVID Immunity and mutation rate
We should have knonwn that COVID's mutation rate was fast enough that vaccines wouldn't work. We didn't. Willfully ignorant.

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