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And from the article, "...data reported from the world's early COVID-19 hot spots, such as South Korea and China, have shown that a growing number of recovered patients appear to have suffered a relapse of the disease."
Several countries, including the USA and France, are considering issuing internal passports or certificates that if you've tested positive for having coronavirus antibodies in your blood that you are now certified free and clear to move about the country and get on planes and such. That might not be a good idea. I talked about this in March about a woman in Japan who was sick in February, she was a tourist bus driver, she subsequently tested positive a second time and I believe she got sick again. The news was a little unclear whether she got sick a second time. Apparently it is now clear that people are getting sick on a repeat basis.
But there is a compounding factor. I have heard, though I haven't seen in print, that there are something like eight different strains of the coronavirus circulating. IF that is true, and that's a BIG IF, then it's possible that people may have complete or limited immunity to one strain and getting smoted by another.
That's a tough one to figure out and also a tough one to configure vaccines for!
Now, another compounding factor is that some diseases, like malaria and I think TB, can 'submerge' and re-activate at a later date. So you think you've recovered, but you're just in a temporary remission state and you'll occasionally get clobbered again. It is possible that COVID is like that, again, there's an awful lot that we don't know yet. Malaria isn't the best example as that is a parasite-based disease, but it still serves as an example.
So personally, I wouldn't put a lot of faith in these documents. We know that our "Leader" wants to get people back to work ASAP to try to get the economy rolling again ASAP, regardless of what it costs in human lives. And I personally side with the doctors and epidemiologists who say that's the wrong approach and will cost even more lives because there's going to be a lot more waves of reinfection if we don't lock down even tighter until we finally take this seriously in issuing PPEs and testing kits, doing full contact testing. And we're not doing that. If Our Beloved Leader gets his wish and some states start doing this piecemeal release, we're just going to have subsequent waves.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/25/844939777/no-evidence-that-recovered-covid-19-patients-are-immune-who-says
Several countries, including the USA and France, are considering issuing internal passports or certificates that if you've tested positive for having coronavirus antibodies in your blood that you are now certified free and clear to move about the country and get on planes and such. That might not be a good idea. I talked about this in March about a woman in Japan who was sick in February, she was a tourist bus driver, she subsequently tested positive a second time and I believe she got sick again. The news was a little unclear whether she got sick a second time. Apparently it is now clear that people are getting sick on a repeat basis.
But there is a compounding factor. I have heard, though I haven't seen in print, that there are something like eight different strains of the coronavirus circulating. IF that is true, and that's a BIG IF, then it's possible that people may have complete or limited immunity to one strain and getting smoted by another.
That's a tough one to figure out and also a tough one to configure vaccines for!
Now, another compounding factor is that some diseases, like malaria and I think TB, can 'submerge' and re-activate at a later date. So you think you've recovered, but you're just in a temporary remission state and you'll occasionally get clobbered again. It is possible that COVID is like that, again, there's an awful lot that we don't know yet. Malaria isn't the best example as that is a parasite-based disease, but it still serves as an example.
So personally, I wouldn't put a lot of faith in these documents. We know that our "Leader" wants to get people back to work ASAP to try to get the economy rolling again ASAP, regardless of what it costs in human lives. And I personally side with the doctors and epidemiologists who say that's the wrong approach and will cost even more lives because there's going to be a lot more waves of reinfection if we don't lock down even tighter until we finally take this seriously in issuing PPEs and testing kits, doing full contact testing. And we're not doing that. If Our Beloved Leader gets his wish and some states start doing this piecemeal release, we're just going to have subsequent waves.
https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/04/25/844939777/no-evidence-that-recovered-covid-19-patients-are-immune-who-says
