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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It is not stated anywhere in the article that the doctor was hospitalized!
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No but readmission within one month can easily imply that they had never fully recovered in the first place. It is not completely out of left field during this pandemic that hospitals are discharging people thinking they made enough progress but they are not completely healed.
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it both cases we are talking about some number of virus particles eventually evading or overcoming the immune systems defences.
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