Interesting Links for 30-04-2020

[andrewducker]

Recovered virus patients retest positive due to 'dead' virus fragments

(tags:virus GoodNews )

Liverpool facing bankruptcy after government's shock coronavirus funding failure

(tags:cities UK conservatives OhForFucksSake )

Comments

"GoodNews"

[jack]

Oh hey, that's a nice tag. I think I remember, you used to use that in the old days sometimes...

I also had a feeling that reports of reinfection were overblown, I wish I'd posted that thought yesterday :) My biological informant tells me that failing to acquire immunity for at least some time is totally a thing that can happen (either for everyone, or some specific people, or under some other circumstances) but it's not *common* so it would be particularly bad luck if it applies to Covid. Obviously, that's just what's most likely, once there's data it's more important to look at the data, but it's also likely that there would be a lot of news reports worrying about the (real) possibility even if that's not actually a real risk but reflect reports of people who had one or more wrong test results, or who hadn't fully recovered, or were some of the small minority who happen to fail to acquire immunity to this particular disease.

Re: "GoodNews"

[andrewducker]

Looks like I'm still managing a few each month!
https://pinboard.in/u:andrewducker/t:GoodNews

COVID-19 reinfection, relapse, redo, rinse & repeat - whatever

[agoodwinsmith]

There is the story of this woman who was sick twice:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/covid-19-relapse-or-reinfection-1.5546771

However, part of the problem is that the test BC is using is only about 70% reliable (I don't know why we are using it). On the otherhand, the tests coincide as follows: positive=sick, negative=not sick, positive=sick, so.

Good News

[anna_wing]

I was rather assuming (and hoping!) it was something like that, and/or a faulty test.