Can You Get Covid Again? It’s Very Unlikely, Experts Say

[KenH]

"While little is definitively known about the coronavirus, just seven months into the pandemic, the new virus is behaving like most others, they said, lending credence to the belief that herd immunity can be achieved with a vaccine.

It may be possible for the coronavirus to strike the same person twice, but it’s highly unlikely that it would do so in such a short window or to make people sicker the second time, they said. What’s more likely is that some people have a drawn out course of infection, with the virus taking a slow toll weeks to months after their initial exposure."

Can You Get Covid Again? It’s Very Unlikely, Experts Say

 

[Scott Downey]

Sure it is possible, but since they already made antibodies, the immune system response would be fast and they would be over it fast. Only way they can get sick again is if their antibody titre numbers drop really low. If their immune system compromised well, then if badly enough compromised, then they could die. But that means any little sickness would also take them out. Everyone eventually is going to die. Dying of cancer is also an immune system failure.

 

[just-want-peace]

------- Everyone eventually is going to die. ------

Most definitely, but it seems that, politically anyway, the only way death counts is if it's from the China Virus!! ('Course this only applies to R controlled cities/states.)
Deaths of kids from gangs don't seem to matter.
Deaths from riots don;'t matter.
Oh well-------!!

 

[carpro]

Why not? You can have the flu more than once, can't you?

 

[timtofly]

I am having a hard time getting it for the first time.

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

I am having a hard time getting it for the first time.

Come to NYC

 

[Reynolds]

Why not? You can have the flu more than once, can't you?

They are assuming Covid will not mutate. That assumption has already been PROVEN false.

 

[MartyF]

The answer is no. Stop making stuff up.

“I haven’t heard of a case where it’s been truly unambiguously demonstrated,” said Marc Lipsitch, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Other experts were even more reassuring.

Straight from the article.

 

[MartyF]

They are assuming Covid will not mutate. That assumption has already been PROVEN false.

“The virus is still so similar now to the initial sequence that there isn’t really much reason to think the differences will matter in terms of vaccine,” Dr. Benjamin Neuman, the head of the biology department at Texas A&M University-Texarkana said.

https://nypost.com/2020/07/22/new-covid-19-mutation-helps-outbreaks-spread-quicker-expert/

 

[Deacon]

Sure it is possible, but since they already made antibodies, the immune system response would be fast and they would be over it fast. Only way they can get sick again is if their antibody titre numbers drop really low. If their immune system compromised well, then if badly enough compromised, then they could die. But that means any little sickness would also take them out. Everyone eventually is going to die. Dying of cancer is also an immune system failure.

Rapid Drop of Antibodies Seen in Those With Mild COVID-19
Antibody levels in patients with mild COVID-19, the level of disease most people have, appear to drop by half within 36 days, new research suggests.

The phenomenon has been suspected and has been observed before but had not been quantified.

Interpreting the meaning of the current research comes with a few caveats, Yang said.
"One is that we don't know for sure that antibodies are what protect people from getting infected," he said. Although it's a reasonable assumption, he said, that's not always the case.

Another caveat is that even if antibodies do protect, the tests being used to measure them — including the test that was used in this study — may not measure them the right way, and it is not yet known how many antibodies are needed for protection, he explained.

"No Reason for Anybody to Be Getting an Antibody Test Medically"
The study provides further proof that "[t]here's no reason for anybody to be getting an antibody test medically right now," Yang said.

Additionally, "FDA-approved tests are not approved for quantitative measures, only qualitative," he continued. He noted that the findings may have implications with respect to herd immunity.

"Herd immunity depends on a lot of people having immunity to the infection all at the same time. If infection is followed by only brief protection from infection, the natural infection is not going to reach herd immunity," he explained.

 

[Reynolds]

“The virus is still so similar now to the initial sequence that there isn’t really much reason to think the differences will matter in terms of vaccine,” Dr. Benjamin Neuman, the head of the biology department at Texas A&M University-Texarkana said.

https://nypost.com/2020/07/22/new-covid-19-mutation-helps-outbreaks-spread-quicker-expert/

The same is true with Flu A and B throughout its annual flu season. Then comes next year and the need for a new vaccine. How well does the flu vaccine work?

 

[KenH]

How well does the flu vaccine work?

How Effective Is the Flu Vaccine?

 

[Reynolds]

How Effective Is the Flu Vaccine?

You going to take a Covid Vaccine every year if it reduces your odds by 60%? (Hypothetically speaking)

 

[MartyF]

The same is true with Flu A and B throughout its annual flu season. Then comes next year and the need for a new vaccine. How well does the flu vaccine work?

How Effective Is the Flu Vaccine?

The flu is different. The flu has multiple RNA Strands and the virus reproduces by randomly sorting these strands in certain animals.

 

[KenH]

You going to take a Covid Vaccine every year if it reduces your odds by 60%? (Hypothetically speaking)

Yep.

 

[Reynolds]

The flu is different. The flu has multiple RNA Strands and the virus reproduces by randomly sorting these strands in certain animals.

Covid 19 is a flu.

 

[MartyF]

Covid 19 is a flu.

No, it is not. They are two completely different viruses.

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

The same is true with Flu A and B throughout its annual flu season. Then comes next year and the need for a new vaccine. How well does the flu vaccine work?

Good point

 

[MRoss]

You take a solid flu vaccine, you don’t think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on Corona?

 

[MartyF]

You take a solid flu vaccine, you don’t think that could have an impact, or much of an impact, on Corona?

You can take all the flu vaccine you want. Flu vaccine will not affect the China Virus.