Good News, Reinfection Unlikely

Seriously good news today actually.
Reinfection
https://www.independent.co.uk/....news/world/asia/coro

https://www.livescience.com/co....ronavirus-reinfectio

http://m.koreaherald.com/view.....php?ud=2020042900072

South Korea

Testing positive again, China, Japan and Italy, as much 10 weeks later

Recovered patients who tested positive for COVID-19 likely not reinfected

Patients who appeared reinfected, false positives

Probable long-term immunity

Expert panel, dead virus fragments causing 290 to test positive after recovery

Not caused by reinfection or reactivation

Tests detected the ribonucleic acid of the dead virus

PCR tests, cannot distinguish living or dead virus, leading to false positives

Fragments of the virus can be detected for up to two months

Respiratory epithelial cells have a half-life of up to three months

Patients had developed antibodies

The process in which Covid-19 produces a new virus takes place only in host cells and does not infiltrate the nucleus, (Dr Oh)

This means it does not cause chronic infection or recurrence

Virus stays outside of the host cell's nucleus, before quickly bursting out and infiltrating the next cell

Unlike hepatitis B or human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV)

The virus is currently undergoing very small genetic changes

Even if antibody levels, memory cells (memory lymphocytes)

The KCDC has not found a single case where such patients had passed the coronavirus to another person