By Scott Wild
Why are supposedly recovered Covid-19 patients testing positive for the virus after they have previously tested negative.
Possible reasons:
- They have been reinfected by another strain of the COVID-19. There have been a handful of different strains identified and tracked. Immune systems primed to defend one strain may not be able to react or react quick enough to handle a different strain.
- The re-infected are carriers. Are they showing symptoms again? And if so, to what extent?
- The virus goes dormant after the lymhocytes beat back one version and a small mutation has the new version work.
- Many asymptomatic people will be carriers. Normal virus shedding patients have an R0 of 0.7 to 3. Where is the R0 for asymptomatic infected people. Check out RT.Live for more information.
It appears that society will be battling this virus for years to come and that even with a vaccine and antibodies, this virus will persist as other viruses do. And as it burns slowly through the people of the world, it will kill some people and may or may not immunize others. The signs from China and South Korea indicate that it can be stopped – which are optimistic.
We have to be ready for the next phase. People will get infected when they are younger, build up antibodies and not have such severe reactions when they are older. Unfortunately, this is a horrible virus that is cleaning out society and reminding us to stay healthy. It is a reminder to keep our blood pressure in check, our weight normal, and monitor our blood sugar so we do not become diabetic.
Regular exercise, a healthy diet and will keep you and society healthy .
Right now, stay safe, don’t catch the virus and become a new infective chain / carrier. Stay home and hope that the vaccine or treatment stops this disease that is infecting our friends, family and maybe ourselves.