Very probable case of reinfection in an Israeli doctor? I'd give it 99% bc known new chain of transmission and 2 month asymptomatic period w neg tests https://m.jpost.com/health-science/israeli-doctor-reinfected-with-coronavirus-3-months-after-recovering-635550 …
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a very clear documented case?
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Replying to @GregNN @nanogenomic and
This is a fear-mongering tweet. Even the article says it ISN'T reinfection! The doctor “tested positive again because she has remnants of her first virus still floating around in her body,” a hospital spokesperson told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday.
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Core issue is few ppl's infections get sequenced, so reinfected or not can't be empirically checked, instead we presume not. Hospital doesn't say why, probably not based on sequencing otherwise they'd say it. Risk must be checked See this threadhttps://twitter.com/GregNN/status/1288198558433153025 …
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Greg Nelson @GregNNReplying to @Merz @CT_Bergstrom and 4 othersThis is the only report of people checking evidence / studying potential reinfection cases. https://twitter.com/aliostad/status/1285701012536385539 … It's shocking to not know people checking this given how important it is, and how empirically blind we are by not checking it. Hope you / others raise signal on it0 replies 3 retweets 4 likes -
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But maybe they are dismissing because the doctor isn't experiencing symptoms, so the rna shedding is more likely?
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Replying to @BiotechObserver @GregNN and
they were admitted to the hospital, i didn't read that they were not experience symptoms -- did i just miss this or are you guessing
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Replying to @DanielleFong @BiotechObserver and
The RNA shedding hypothesis is unproven too. No one is being critical of it. For example, you could have shedding of virus that is recognized by antibodies or destroyed by immune system but it could be sign of deeper latent infection. We aren’t talking about that.
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Replying to @nanogenomic @BiotechObserver and
did I read something about a korean study in which they attempted to use (something? virus or ... sputum? blood? not sure) to infect in vitro
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My point is that a virus that’s present in your nasal mucosa during a putative reinfection would be subject to the most intense immune surveillance, and even if it’s deactivated it could be a sign of re-emergent deeper infection.
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that's a good point
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