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