So wait, we already knew there were multiple strains (i.e. one came to the US from China, and the other from Europe, which I’ve seen cited as a reason why New York was hit so much harder, comparatively speaking), right? All this time, I’ve been thinking that “reinfection” necessarily involved getting the same strain twice; is this not the case?
Are you sure that was actual covid or post-covid syndrome. My Dad’s friend also had covid in the spring. He went to the hospital for post-covid syndrome. Myocarditis. Come to think of it, my Dad hasn’t heard back from him. They drifted apart a while ago. Hope he’s okay.
I don’t know. She had mild symptoms, not hospitalized, in I think April. Then she was apparently fine until around the middle of September. She was hospitalized and went downhill fast. This info is from my friend via his mother so I can’t say what the doctors actually told her. But my friend is under the impression that it was a 2nd infection.
38,363,600 total cases
1,090,811 dead
28,850,085 recovered
In the US:
8,090,253 total cases
220,873 dead
5,226,427 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
It’s not unusual to catch the same viral infection more than once, especially after some time has passed. I don’t have any stats or figures in front of me … but ISTM that the rarities are actually the viruses that do generally confer ‘lifetime immunity’ after first exposure, such as chicken pox (but then some get shingles decades later [?]).
‘Lifetime immunity’ in quotes because even for those viruses, some tiny number of exposed people never get lifetime immunity.
Washington Post article in our local paper
What’s going over there just boggles the mind…
That article concludes that reducing restrictions would ‘further damage the economy’. You can’t help but feel that its authors want to have it both ways.
If reducing restrictions leads to an even more widespread outbreak, with an even higher incidence of people becoming seriously ill, and far more dying, you better believe that that’ll damage the economy, too.
You know what would be best for this economy? Knock out this god damned virus, and get back to business.
38,744,473 total cases
1,096,881 dead
29,123,761 recovered
In the US:
8,150,043 total cases
221,843 dead
5,278,753 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
Why would anyone want to deliberately catch this disease?
Preexisting condition, indeed.
You know there is a massive denial movement rampant now and its current target is this pandemic.
It was a rhetorical question. (rueful smile)
I just think about how betrayed people will feel as the truth slowly sinks in over the next few years. Even if you get over COVID, you may not… get over COVID.
I would be interested in reading this report. I’m dubious as to the value and impact of people sharing their perceived illnesses in on-line communities? I would be interested in the controls the researchers used to rule out factors such as secondary gain.
Oh, of course. It’s obviously very preliminary information. Still, some disturbing observations.
39,175,466 total cases
1,102,941 dead
29,378,743 recovered
In the US:
8,216,315 total cases
222,717 dead
5,320,139 recovered
Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:
Today shattered the previous one-day new case record worldwide with just over 399,000 new cases; the US had over 66,000 new cases.
Anyone who accepts the premise of that article without skepticism is participating in a type of denial of his own.
What type of denial would that be?
Two months ago India surpassed the United States as the country having the most reported COVID cases per day. Its number of daily reported cases soared higher than any other country’s had been.
Now, two months later, the US has reclaimed the title of the Most Reported COVID cases per day, and the number is rising while India’s is falling.(The chart shows a moving seven-day average, but that’s only smoothing over short-term spikes. The trend is pretty clear).
Way to go, USA
Let’s be very clear. India was on a per capita basis never anywhere close to being in the game.